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(From the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Tuesday, November 5th, 1918.) 

HUNS AT WAR UKE MAD DOGS, 
WRITES W. HART UPON PEACE 



Thinks Germany "Most Abominable Criminal in His- 
tory" — Should Be Sentenced and Not Permitted 
to Negotiate With the Allies. 



To the Editor of The Times-Picayune : 

Abraham Lincoln is reported to have once said, referring 
to the fact that pohtical parties do not always carry out 
their declarations of principles : "A platform is a g-ood thin^; 
to get in on, but not a good thing to stand on," thus liken- 
ing a political platform to a railroad car platform. 

The "Fourteen Principles for World Peace" enunciated 
before Congress on January 8 by President Wilson, repre- 
sent a very good beginning of discussion when the Allies, 
but not Germany or Austria, meet to consider peace terms, 
but they do not represent the whole case, because since 
that time "much water has gone under the bridge," espe- 
cially as President Wilson, in his reply to Austria last 
week, stated that a good many events have happened since 
January 8 which have to be taken into consideration with 
what he then said. 

There is only one answer to the German and Austrian 
requests for an armistice and eventual peace, and that is, as 
so well said by ex-President Roosevelt and many others, 
"unconditional surrender;" just as at the capitulation of 
Fort Donelson, during the war between the States, when 
General Buckner, the commander of the Confederate forces, 
sent a messenger with a flag of truce to General Grant to 
know what terms would be accorded him, the answer 



came back nothing but "unconditional surrender," and "un- 
conditional surrender" it was. It is perfectly apparent 
from the course of Germany in the past that if an armistice 
is granted the terms thereof will not be observed by her 
people, but that they will take advantage thereof to perpe- 
trate greater outrages upon the unfortunate old men, women 
and children over whom they have temporary control, and 
during the time covered by the armistice they will work up 
some scheme to defeat the Allies either on the field in future 
warfare or at the Council Table if they are admitted, which 
ought not to be the case, but which the granting of an 
armistice I am afraid foreshadows. When unconditional 
surrender takes place, then the Allies may tell Germany 
upon what terms it will have permanent peace. 

Germany, the most abominable criminal in history, must 
be sentenced — not allowed to negotiate for peace. There 
must be no conference, no peace table. There must be only 
unconditional surrender, and after that, terms of punish- 
ment dictated by the Allies. Germany protests against a 
peace with a "sting" to it, but that is just what Germany is 
going to get. 

As a preliminary, Germany and Austria should be com- 
pelled to evacuate all territory of the Allies — Belgium, 
France, Serbia, Montenegro, Rumania, Russia, Italy and 
Poland, and also Luxemburg — the Allies to take possession 
of Alsace and Lorraine, Italy Irredente, Austrian and Ger- 
man Poland ; the German soldiers should be compelled to 
leave their arms, both large and small, and all ammunition 
in the hands of the Allies and return to Germany entirely 
unarmed (and disarmament must be permanent, except that 
proper provision may be made for preserving domestic 
order), and every submarine should be delivered, or ac- 
counted for, to the Allies, who should take charge of the 
submarine bases and the German and Austrian navies, no 
matter where their ships may be ; and to guard against Ger- 
man treachery therewith take possession of Heligoland, 
Kiel and the Kiel canal and Pola ; the great Krupp works at 



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Esssen and similar manufactories in Germany and Austria 
should be turned over to representatives of the Allies to be 
worked or not as the Allies should determine; the Allies 
should station troops wherever they think proper in Ger- 
many and Austria in order to preserve order and to prevent 
uprisings and treachery on the part of the German and 
Austrian people, and to prevent anarchy when the Em- 
perors of Germany and Austria are dethroned, and to assist 
in the establishment of such new governments as the people 
of these countries may select. All Allied prisoners must be 
released and sent home, and German prisoners should be 
put to work to clear and repair the roads, the fields and 
cities, damaged and destroyed by German and Austrian 
vandals; ample guarantee should be given by the surrender 
of German forests, mines and manufacturing establishments 
and other property, that the pecuniary damage to the de- 
vastated countries should be provided for as far as possible. 

The German merchant fleet, where not already taken pos- 
session of by the Allies, should be delivered to representa- 
tives thereof, and the principle "ship for ship" and "ton for 
ton" should be vigorously enforced. Of course, no money 
compensation and no physical reparation is possible for mur- 
dered non-combatants, men, women and children, for 
mutilated children, nor for ravished women- nor for 
churches, libraries, museums, forests and works of art, 
which can never be replaced, but indemnity to cover them 
as far as possible as well as the expenses of the war should 
be exacted from the German people, and they should know 
that their labor for at least a generation will be needed, so 
far as the profits thereof are concerned, to repair in a small 
measure the wrongs they have inflicted upon the world. 

The German, individually, is generally as good a citizen 
as there is in the world, but collectively when v/ar is pre- 
sented to them they become savages in the broadest sense of 
the term; just hke mad dogs, nothing is sacred in their way; 
ninety per cent, of the people of Germany believe the Kaiser 
to be greater than God (but the German people, like all 



idolaters, will in time destroy their idol, and this may come 
much sooner than we anticipate) ; the other ten per cent, 
believe him to be the equal of God; perhaps ten per cent, 
ought to be nine per cent., because there is a small minority, 
almost insignificant, in Germany, which have no regard for 
the Kaiser, but their influence unfortunately and the one or 
two newspapers which they control has not been sufficient 
to stop the tide of butchery and barbarism begun and en- 
couraged by the Emperor and his ministers and his gen- 
erals, endorsed by the press as a whole, by the people, and, 
sad to say, by the clergy, as witness the recent pronounce- 
ment of the bishop of Cologne, and carried out by the peo- 
ple not only under the orders of the Emperor, but to support 
their own ideas and designs brought about by their love of 
war, their lust for power and their delight in destruction, 
which was exemplified in the recently discovered destruc- 
tion and mutilation of the records of St. Quentin, and the 
continued looting of evacuated territory in Belgium, France 
and Russia. 

And not content with using the mines of Belgium for 
their own profit, as the war seems about to end, the Ger- 
man vandals are destroying them as far as possible so as to 
make their use for the Belgian people, the owners thereof, 
of no value to them for many years to come. 

The talk about the "simple German people" is mere 
twaddle. When a people are taught from the cradle up to 
worship Kaiserism there c?n be no difference between their 
character and that of their rulers. As Arthur Balfour 
says: "Brutes they were when they entered the war and 
brutes they remained." And as the New York Tribune well 
adds : "It is time to have done with the fiction that the war 
was created by a handful of marplots or junkers. It was 
created by the wealth and intoxicating success of the Ger- 
man nation (supported and backed up by the German people 
as a whole), and for it they must pay, and the United States 
will not mitigate the punishment." 



The Germans have brought nothing but the sterile doc- 
trine of force to the regions they temporarily overran. They 
have enslaved the people, wasted the fields, wrecked the 
monuments. No consideration of humanity, of interna- 
tional law, of what we once called Christian sympathy, has 
tempered their violence or moderated their barbarity. In 
all that they have done for four long years they have shown 
only one spirit. We call them Huns, not in anger, not in 
passion — neither anger nor passion has place with us — but 
no other name expresses the ideals which they have dis- 
closed. 

In all cases justice should be tempered with mercy, but 
in the case of Germany a remark once made by a celebrated 
Judge, when he was asked to speak against capital punish- 
ment, is directly pertinent: "I am opposed to the infliction 
of capital punishment, but not until the murderers stop it 
first." 

When the time comes for the Peace meeting, Germany 
and Austria should not be represented, except perhaps as 
witnesses, for the pronouncement of their doom, and only 
present for the purpose of accepting what the Allies say 
they must do, just as the convicted criminal must be in 
Court when the dread sentence of death is pronounced by 
the Judge. 

The character of the German people is shown by the tor- 
pedoing of the passenger steamers Leinster and Hirano 
Maru, with the loss of over one thousand defenseless lives, 
men, women and children, and the bombing of a hospital, 
providentially this time without the loss of life, and this 
while in the same breath Germany was asking for an armis- 
tice as a beginning of peace ; except in degree the crime of 
sinking these vessels was equal to that of the Lusitania, the 
knowledge of which will ever prevent Germany from being 
recognized among the people of the world . as a civiUzed 
nation, and which was celebrated by the German people by 
the striking of a commemorative medal in honor ( ?) thereof. 
As truly said by Samuel Gompers, the great labor leader 



of America: "Until Germany has had a Fourth of July or 
a Fourteenth of July to celebrate it will never know the 
meaning of freedom, civilization, decency and liberty," and 
that time is a long way off. 

What Germany is thought of is shown by an extract from 
a Tokio newspaper, where that country is described as "a 
common enemy who is a deliberate transgressor of the cause 
of peace, justice and humanity." 

The insincerity of Germany's peace offer is shown in a 
statement just made that until an armistice has been 
granted submarine warfare shall not cease; this is the same 
old dictatorial style of Germany, "you must do as I tell you 
first, before I will do anything that you want me to do" ; 
but this country and the Allies will never submit to that 
dictation; Germany will be told what it has to do, and the 
German people, for there is no distinction between the peo- 
ple and the Government, will have to do it. 

The last German note is an effrontery to the President of 
the United States and to all the American people, as well as 
to the other nations associated with the United States in 
the war. 

Germany speaks of a general, partial disarmament pre- 
liminary to an armistice, a proposition which, of course, will 
not be considered for a moment. 

The note still speaks of the honor of the German people 
and nation, which if it ever existed has long since disap- 
peared; as if a country could have any honor which loots 
defenseless prisoners, attacks the Red Cross of its ad- 
versaries and uses the Red Cross on its ammunition wagons, 
knowing that with that sign they are free from attack; it 
asks for a Peace of Justice, for Germany. Justice, while the 
last thing which Germany wants, is exactly what will be 
meted out to that country, its rulers, its army and navy and 
its people. 

"Forgive them not, for they know very well what they 
do," as so well said by Sarah Bernhardt. 

In this regard, Germany is like the criminal in jail, who. 



after telling his story to his lawyer, is told by the latter: 
"I will see that you get Justice." "Justice — Justice : that is 
just what I do not want. I want to get out of jail." As 
laconically expressed by Senator Lodge: "No peace that 
satisfies Germany in any degree can ever satisfy us." 

The dethronement of the Kaiser will not bring Germany 
to its senses ; if another government is formed it will be on 
the same theory; perhaps not so ruthless or cruel, but dic- 
tatorial and supercillious. To paraphrase a well-known 
Biblical event: "The voice may be the voice of Jacob, but the 
hand is the hand of Esau." 

It would be humorous, if it were not pathetic to read that 
Germany has appointed a Commission to ascertain the 
physical damage it has done to Belgium, and that the head 
of the Commission is the notorious German governor of 
Belgium, the murderer of Edith Cavell. 

The Socialists of Germany are no more to be trusted than 
the Imperialists; their lust for power is just as great, and 
their character is shown by their support of the War Party 
in Germany (with few exceptions), all its brutahties, cruel- 
ties and barbarities, and their so-called overnight reforming 
is simply an evidence of their desire to gain power, no mat- 
ter at whose cost. 

In his mad adventure the Kaiser turned treaties into 
scraps of paper, broke every law of honorable warfare, on 
land and sea, murdered innocent women and children, 
burned and pillaged the cities his armies invaded, ruthlessly 
trampled on the rights of neutral peoples and made fright- 
fulness his weapon to enslave the world. 

The Kaiser will never surrender, and unless he is actually 
captured in war, when the crash comes he will skip away 
to some foreign country, there to live in oblivion and re- 
morse; this is the best thing that could happen, for if he 
were executed or exiled he would be made a martyr, and 
the German people would continue to look up to him as they 
have in the past. 



While, of course, he did not expect the crash to come, the 
probability is that the Kaiser did not attack and overrun 
Holland because he wanted to be sure of a place of refuge 
in case the unexpected should happen, realizing full well that 
if he conquered the rest of the world, the seizure and occu- 
pation of Holland would be as easy of accomphshment as 
"Taking candy from a child." 

No one wants to destroy Germany or German cities or 
German property, because reprisals after all mean nothing 
in the long run ; if A burns down B's house, B gains nothing 
by burning down A's house, but if he takes A's house to 
make him pay for the burning of his own house then he has 
accomplished some good for the world ; and so it must be in 
this case; German property must be taken by the Allies in 
order to pay in part at least for the wrongs done by Ger- 
many, and Germany must know the price it must pay. 

The women and children and old men of Germany have 
nothing to fear from the Allies, but in fact they will be 
better treated than they were by their own soldiers; but the 
men of Germany who are able to do so must be compelled 
to work, and work, and work to help repair the material 
damage done by their vandalism, brutality and beastiality. 
Recently some spokesman for Germany said that country 
would never consent to a peace beneath its dignity, as if 
such a country, with such a ruler, could know the meaning 
of this word ; and particularly is this so when we recall the 
extremely humiliating terms which less than six months 
ago Germany proposed to exact from the Allies as a basis of 
peace, on the theory that it had won the war. And note 
what was said to the Rumanian Commissioners when the 
so-called Treaty of Peace was presented to them : 

"You think these terms are harsh. Wait. When we 
dictate terms to the western powers, which we will have 
conquered presently, then you will know what harsh terms 
are." 

T quote the following from the papers of last week: "Re- 
ferring specifically to the proposed sale of the property in 



New Jersey of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg- 
American steamship lines, the note (from Germany) says it 
is an endeavor to 'shackle through the force the opportuni- 
ties of German shipping interests to develop in the future.' " 
This protest from Germany! Germany, which has devas- 
tated and destroyed private property without reason, except 
for the mere pleasure of destroying it, as has been done 
repeatedly, the most recent cases being the cities of Douai, 
Koubaix and Turcoing, just captured by the Allies, to protest 
against the preservation of property, once belonging to it, 
for the use of the world. This is on a par with German 
arrogance from the beginnnig of the war up to the present- 

The old English Law of Deodands should be applied to Ger- 
man and Austrian submarines, and they must be totally de- 
stroyed as submarines and their component parts put to 
peaceful use, and after the war is over and peace has been 
universally declared and observed the submarines of the 
Allies must be similarly treated, and thereafter any nations 
using submarines, except for mercantile or pleasure pur- 
poses, should be outlawed, and the crews of such vessels con- 
sidered as pirates and treated as such when captured. 

All enemy forts and fortresses on the borders of other 
countries should be dismantled and destroyed, and in time 
those of the Allies should be likewise destroyed, as their con- 
tinuance is a prolific source of distrust, and their removal 
will bring the nations closer together in peace and confi- 
dence, as has been the case with Canada and the United 
States for over one hundred years. 

German shipping must be a thing of the past for many, 
many years to come, as whatever ships, it now owns should 
become the property of the Allies, in part payment of the in- 
demnity it will owe, and its shipbuilding plants must be 
operated by the Allies for the benefit of the world, other 
than Germany ; besides, while the seas are free, ports are 
not, and no country in the world which has suffered from 
Germany's acts in the war will for at least a generation 
allow any German vessels to enter its ports ; and we all know 



that the ship laboring men of France and England and per- 
haps other countries have announced that owing to German 
cruelties upon the high seas they will refuse to handle goods 
from and to German vessels, so even if German vessels 
could enter the ports of the Allies they could not and should 
not be allowed to transport merchandise either way, except 
insofar as such ships may be used to transport products of 
German factories, fields, forests and mines, the profits from 
which shall be used by the Allies to repair part of the ma- 
terial damage done by the German hordes who devastated 
Belgium, France and other countries ; and for the same rea- 
son the Allies must take possession of and administer the 
railroads, canals, navigable rivers and lakes, and where 
necessary the highways, and in general the public utilities 
of Germany. 

And probably the Allies may find it advisable to take pos- 
session of all the ports of Germany and Austria and collect 
the customs dues for the benefit of the devastated countries, 
allowing such portion of the receipts as may be necessary to 
carry on the internal affairs thereof, just as is being done 
in the cases of Haiti and San Domingo, and has been done 
in other countries by the United States, and for reasons 
elsewhere stated herein all exports from Germany and Aus- 
tria should be supervised so as to protect laborers in the 
United States and the countries of the AUies and to see that 
the profits thereon should be used as part of the indemnity 
which the contract powers must pay. 

Mr. Kahn, of New York, the great banker, either of Ger- 
man birth or descent, thus sums up what Germany has done 
to the world : 

"The land to which we were linked by fond memories has 
been made an outcast among the nations, convicted of high 
treason against civilization and of unspeakable crimes 
against humanity." As Germany has made itself an out- 
cast, so an outcast it must be, and no civihzed nation will 
receive its representatives whose hands will ever be drip- 
ping with human blood. 

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The peace treaty should be signed not in Berhn or Ver- 
sailles, but in Brussels, and the peace congress should be 
presided over by King Albert, the most heroic figure in his- 
tory, and before the proceedings begin the bless'ings of God 
should be invoked on the labors of the Commissioners by 
Cardinal Mercier, whom neither threats nor commands pre- 
vented from doing his duty to his people oppressed, outraged 
and ejislaved as they were by the German hordes. The 
desperation of Germany is shown by its efforts of base flat- 
tery to overcome the feelings of this great man to secure his 
sympathy, but he knows them too well to be caught in any 
such trap. 

The greatest men of the world should represent the Allies 
in this cong¥ess, and I hope that ex-President Theodore 
Roosevelt may be the leader of the American delegation, for 
no matter how much we may differ from him in politics or 
in policy, everyone must admit his great Americanism, his 
great ability and his determination to stand for the right 
under all circumstances; and joined by Mr. House they 
would present, so to speak, a "stone wall" against which 
German craftiness would beat in vain. 

It is rumored that when the time comes the principal Ger- 
man representatives claiming to sit ut the Peace Table will 
be General Winterfeldt, who, after being succored and cared 
for in France while ill in 1913, the year befoie the war. 
went into Spain, and used the information he had received 
while accepting the hospitahties of F>ance, by sending spies 
all over that country to get information for his Imperial 
master, to be used in the world war which he was then plan- 
ning; and Mathias Ersberger, the arch-plotter who tried in 
every way, by bribes and otherwise, to divide the Allies and 
corrupt their soldiers, and Von Bernsdorff, the hypocrite, 
false friend and instigator of conspiracies against the United 
States, its territory and the property of its people, who did 
his best to embroil this country in trouble with its neighbors 
and other friendly countries of the world, promising them 
some of our States in return for their treachery if they had 

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attacked us, as he hoped, but they were too honest to listen 
to his blandishments ; and under whose superintendence and 
direction so many acts of sabotage were inflicted on Amer- 
ican property and shipping while he was German Ambassa- 
dor to the United States, from the beginning of the war in 
1914 until he was unceremoniously "kicked out," something 
that ought to have been done nearly three years before it 
occurred. 

And notwithstanding his great efforts and those of others 
in the employ of the German Government in the United 
States, it is to their great and eventual credit, patriotism 
and sacredness of their oaths when they became citizens, 
that the Germans in this country who had been naturalized, 
almost to a man, stood by the country of their adoption, and 
so did those of German descent ; the few exceptions, because 
there are exceptions to every rule, and there are black sheep 
in every flock, were almost insignificant compared with those 
who remained true and showed their adherence to the coun- 
try of their adoption. 

The result of the peace congress must not only be the 
restoration and rehabilitation of the small nations, which 
have suffered so much during the war, but the peoples so 
long under alien rule must be restored to freedom and recog- 
nized as entitled to control their own affairs ; these embrace 
the inhabitants of Armenia, Arabia, Bohemia, Finland, 
which will soon awake from the German nightmare which 
is now oppressing it; Mesopotamia, Palestine, Poland, 
Siberia, Slavonia and Syria; and a great Yugo-Slav state 
must be created ; and as "freedom shrieked when Kosciusko 
fell," so will freedom cheer when the people of Poland have 
restored to them their United Country ; and who knows but 
that the spirit of Louis Kossuth may yet hover over a re- 
generated and independent and truly-free Hungary. 

The Balkan States must be arranged geographically and 
ethnologically and the great nations support and encourage 
them to work out their own future. 

The suggestion recently made that the Balkan churches 

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should unite with the American Episcopal Church and adopt 
the English service, if carried out, will do more to bring 
fredom, liberty and intelligence to the people of those coun- 
tries than anything that could possibly happen, and the 
idea should be encouraged and fostered in every way possi- 
ble; just as the teaching of English in Mexico will bring 
regeneration to that troubled country. 

Germany has always been in favor of what is called "a 
strong German peace" ; that is, give Germany all that it asks 
for and it will be the most satisfied nation in the world. 

Another expression used by a German statesman is that 
Germany is ready for "a peace with right," but not a "peace 
by might" ; what it calls "a peace with right" would be a Ger- 
man-made peace, which must never be agreed to under any 
circumstances, and a "peace by might" is what German is 
going to get. 

Germany cries for mercy, but to her the world may well 
say : "That mercy you have failed to show, cannot be shown 
to you." 

A provision which should be incorporated in the peace 
treaties with the four powers that waged war against the 
world is, that until the civilized world is satisfied that they 
have returned to civilization, if such a thing be possible. Con- 
sular Courts should be established by the other countries of 
the world, just as they are and have been in heathen lands, so 
that citizens and subjects of the Allies unfortunate enough 
to be compelled to visit the enemy countries will have pro- 
tection in their lives, liberty and property, which it would 
not do to trust to the German courts any more than it would 
do to trust them to the German Government. 

The hypocritical "Holier than Thou" whine of Germany 
that it has been guilty of no cruelties is on a par with the 
cruelties themselves, which began almost at the birth of the 
war and have been repeated and intensified from time to 
time, and are forcibly presented in a recent statement by 
Dr. Moore, the British chaplain of Lille, just relieved from 
four years' submission to Germany; and what he says may 
be partially quoted: 

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^'British prisoners were kept without food for three days 
and nights after their capture, and this was done dehberate- 
ly in order to break their spirit. I have watched dying men 
go through the streets to tlieir tasks; at first the German 
authorities would not even permit me to bury the British 
dead; I have seen famished men raking through piles of 
rubbish picking out bits of cabbage leaves and other refuse 
and eating them eagerly. Eight thousand young women 
were forcibly seized and sent away to work hundreds of 
miles from their homes. For this conscription of girls Gernian 
officers made an arbitrary choice, saying to one, 'You,' and to 
another, 'You,' and then ordering the men to take them ; this 
was to be a life of misery and horror to any girl of decent 
instincts; twelve thousand men and boys were sent away 
farther into Germany so that their labor should not be given 
to their own people; the girls were intimately examined by 
German doctors to see if they were in good health and un- 
diseased, there being no detail omitted which could have 
made the whole thing more vile and repellant to every civil- 
ized instinct; the horrors were so great that two officers 
of the German army refused to do their part in this terrible 
work, and were severely punished by their superiors." 

And, of course, Lille is not the only place where helpless 
and defenseless prisoners have been cruelly and barbarously 
treated, as is shown by the testimony of returned prisoners, 
as well as that of neutral observers and investigators, and 
the depth of depravity is shown by orders found on German 
prisoners that wells in evacuated land should be poisoned. 

Not content with robbing and looting the property of de- 
fenseless persons and of being guilty of extreme cruelty to 
prisoners, the Germans were not satisfied, but went on in 
their nefarious work by stealing from prisoners, principally 
Americans, the few comforts sent to them by their friends 
in the United States and elsewhere. 

And with peace on their lips, but with hate in their heart; 
the Germans, as they retreat, throw gas bombs on the fleeing 
and i-etuming inhabitants of Belgium, destroying whom they 
can, and making invalids of as many of the remainder as 

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possible. 

Even the Bolsheviki, the creature of Germany, in answer 
to a German complaint of inhuman treatment of political 
adversaries, replied as follows: "Germany, which violated 
the neutrality of Belgium and holds populations of invaded 
countries under a brutal yoke, is not qualified to intervene 
in this question." 

Turkey, whose babarities, cruelties and indignities, perpe- 
trated upon the helpless Christian subjects of the Sultan, 
have shocked the civilized world for years and years, and 
which, during the present war, were encouraged if not 
actually incited by the Kaiser, must be restricted to its 
original territory in Asia, and Constantinople and the 
Dardanelles taken from the grasp of the infidel and neutral- 
ized for the benefit of the world. 

The German colonies must never be returned for barbaric 
and cruel exploitation which have been their lot in the past, 
but should be given to England, and then under the benefi- 
cent administration of that country they will in time 
blossom as the rose, as has been the case of Egypt, and 
other parts of the Dark Continent under English rule. 

The Allies might demand more than the foregoing, but to 
slightly paraphrase the great saying of Martin Luther: 
"With God's help they can ask no less ;" for unless Ger- 
many is forced to pecuniarily be punished as far as possible, 
no other reparation being possible, then Germany will have 
won the war in an economic sense, because its territory and 
all its industries remain absolutely untouched. 

In preference to an immediate peace, I believe the people 
of France would prefer to drive the invading Huns out of 
their beloved country by force of arms before the surrender 
comes, and I do not doubt that the people of the world in 
general hope they may do so. 

I have always been in favor of a League of Nations, giving 
expression to my views on the subject in 1911 in a paper 
which I read at the Third Peace Congress in Baltimore that 
year, entitled, "Universal Peace Impossible Without an In- 
ternational Code." 

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But the League must be composed of civilized Nations, and 
not include barbarians who fire shrapnel at boats laden with 
women and children, and are guilty of so many other 
atrocities. 

Universal disarmament must come with final Peace, for 
otherwise the War would have been fought in vain and the 
great sacrifices made for the cause of Democracy, Freedom 
and Liberty will have been worse than useless. 

And to prevent Germany from preparing for another War 
it must not be allowed to manufacture and store up instru- 
ments of warfare, but whatever arms and munitions its peo- 
ple may need for domestic purposes, must be furnished to 
them under proper safeguards and strict accountability by 
and to the other countries of the world. 

No matter what the other Allies may do, so far as the 
United States is concerned, the Germans and Austrians in- 
terned in this country must be returned to their own land; 
and considering how anxious they were to serve their own 
countries during the war by violating the hospitalities of the 
country which gave them a home, and in many cases for- 
tunes, they can hardly object when the war is over to being 
sent back to Germany and Austria to work therefor and help 
pay the bills which the Allies will present to them and which 
must be settled to the uttermost farthing. 

Immigration to this country from Germany and Austria 
must in the future be greatly curtailed and circumscribed 
and probably be placed upon the same footing as immigra- 
tion from China, until after a long term of probation, the 
residents of these countries, who desire to come to America, 
have shown by their words and deeds that they are fit sub- 
jects for residence in the great Pepublic; and in future no 
foreigner, no matter from what country, should be natural- 
ized in the United States unless he can read, write and speak 
the English language ; if a foreigner who desires to become a 
citizen cannot learn to do this in the five years required for 
residence, he will ncv^er learn, and no man who cannot do this 
can appreciate the spirit of American institutions. 

W. 0. HART. 
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ADDENDA, 

With the consent of Mr. J. Walker Ross, Editor of The 
New Orleans Daily States, I add to what I have heretofore 
written, an article published in that paper, on Sunday, Nov- 
17, 1918, endorsing in a few words my sentiments as above 
expressed. 

The article just as it was pubHshed in The States is as fol- 
lows: 

GERMAN PEOPLE DESERVE NO MECY. 

BY LIEUT. COL. REPINGTON. 

Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Company. 
(Cable to New York World and New Orleans States.) 

LONDON, Nov. 16. — Since July 15 there has been no 
break nor serious setback in the continuous triumph of the 
Allied arms and the war ends with the greatest disaster 
Germany has experienced for over a century. Every symbol 
of the enemy's pride and power falls with the abdication of 
Wilhehn IL 

It was not fitting that he whose misuse of power brought 
about the death of millions and whose name ever will be 
execrated by countless numbers of bereaved people should 
any longer possess a vestige of authority. Such has been the 
verdict of Germans and it is also ours. 

But that the sins of the whole German people can be 
washed out by the sacrifice of the Emperor and the dynasty 
is not a tenable thesis. The German people associated them- 
selves with the initial and odious treachery of their Govern- 
ment, and they supported and gloated over the ravages and 
murders, the looting and arson, the poison gas and the in- 
famous massacre of innocent civilians on land and on sea. 

Their vile women spat upon our prisoners and every fresh 
outrage found peers and peasants, professors and parsons 
to defend it. 



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Only when it was proved by the weight of our anns 
that barbarity did not pay, did this miserable people flee 
from the wrath to come and as treacherously deserted their 
Emperor as they treacherously had deserted civilization. Not 
so easily can they escape from the consequences of their 
shameful acts and from the scales of evenhanded justice in 
which their offenses will be weighed. 



I also quote other newspaper articles, as follows : 
(From the New Orleans Daily States, November 21, 1918.) 

GERMANY INTENDED, IF SHE 

HAD ¥/0N, TO TAKE CONTINENT 



London, Nov. 21. — (British Wireless Service.) — The late 
Albert Ballin, general director of the Hamburg-American 
Steamship Company, in discussing the indicated armistice 
terms to be given to Germany, in a letter to the editor of the 
National Zeitung, of Berlin, shortly before his death, ac- 
cording to a telegram from Zurich, said: 

"The indicated military, economic and political conditions 
of the entente are much more moderate than might have 
been expected from our situation- We need only think what 
our terms would have been had we been the victors. 

"We would have demanded the occupation of Paris and 
London. We would have dictated peace at Buckingham Pal- 
ace and annexed the entire continent from the Ural Moun- 
tains to the Bay of Biscay." 



(From the New Orleans States, November 22, 1918.) 

Germans lynched Miss Cavell and Captain Fryatt, mur- 
dered priests, speared babies, and ruthlessly executed other 
unoffending persons. Some of her submarine crews were 

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guilty of crimes equally cold-blooded and atrocious. Not all 
the tools who committed these horrors can, of course, be 
brought to the bar of justice. But there is no reason why 
the higher-ups who ordered them should not be arraigned, 
tried and made to pay a penalty commensurate with the sav- 
agery of their acts. 



Liberalism is just as much on trial now as autocracy has 
been. What it has gained by physical force may all iDe lost 
by moral weakness and indecision. If the high aims which 
nerved milhons of freemen in desperate battle are not to 
govern their representatives at the council board the disil- 
lusionment of democracy will be as tragic as that which de- 
feat has brought upon the hosts of absolutism. — New York 
World. 



(From the New Orleans Item, November 23, 1918.) 

RITISH, FREED BY GERMANS, 

ARE GIVEN NO FOOD 



Are Turned Adrift in Rags and Made to Walk 

Home. 



COMMITTEE REPORTS 

INHUMAN FLOGGINGS 



Inquisitors Say Disgrace Is Flagrant and Infers Ber- 
lin Approves It. 



London, Nov. 23. — Pitiable conditions among British pris- 
oners liberated by the Germans since the signing of the ar- 
mistice are described by Renter's correspondent at French 



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headquarters. Thousands of these men, mostly British, are 
entering France daily. The correspondent writes : 

"I have never seen human beings in such a state of rag- 
gedness, hunger and misery. When the camps at Forbach, 
thirty-eight miles east of Metz, as well as those elsewhere, 
were broken up the prisoners, most of whom were captured 
during the March offensive, were told to clear out and seek 
help from their allies. They started to walk the fifty or six- 
ty miles to the allied lines, but were given no food and had 
no money. They were in shameful rags, the soles dropping 
off their boots. Some v/ore clogs and no socks. 

"They left the prison camps in droves of hundreds, in 
charge of German officers and soldiers who had deserted. 
The weather was very cold and many died by the roadside 
v/ithin a few miles from friends. When the survivors en- 
tered the French lines, French soldiers who were hardened 
war heroes were horrified to see men in such a plight. It is 
not doubted that this suffering was intentionally imposed 
upon the British. Prisoners of other nationalities are agreed 
that the British were treated worse than the others at all 
German camps." 

A further i^eport of Sir Robert Younger's committee, deal- 
ing with the treatment of British prisoners in the coal and 
salt mines of Germany, gives harrowing details of brutal 
treatment by the Germans. This report says: 

"From testimony scarcely a month old, it is evident that 
there is no sign of improvement whatever in the treatment 
of prisoners in Germany. This disgrace is open and flagrant 
and the only possible inference is that Berlin deliberately 
approves of it. There is no doubt that work in the mines 
is inflicted as punishment. Here is an abstract from a letter 
dated May 20 last from a British private soldier: 

" 'We have had little to eat since we left Hameln. Two of 



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our number have gone to the hospital with broken arms and 
the remainder are suffering- from cuts on their heads and 
bruises as the result of floggings they received at the last 
place. If you could only see the boys here ; they all look like 
dead men. They are worked to death.' " 

The record of daily promiscuous violence might be much 
further illustrated. To scores of men who have given evi- 
dence concerning the mining camps, kicks, blows and insults 
became a part of the normal routine. 



(From the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Sunday, Nov. 24, 

1918.) 

FRENCH WOMEN BACK TERMS OF ARMISTICE. 



Malte Finn Refusal to Plea for Mitigation of Proposals Laid 
I>own to Huns. 



(By United Press.) 

Paris, Nov. 23. — (British Wireless Semce.) — The Na- 
tional Council of French Women has declined to intercede 
with the French government to mitigate the terms of the 
German armistice. In reply to a message published in the 
press from German women to Madame Jules Sigfried, presi- 
dent of the council, the council unaimously adopted this 
resolution : 

"No, we will not intercede with our government to miti- 
gate the conditions of the armistice which are only too jus- 
tified by the manner in which Germany has waged war- 

"In the course of these tragic years German women, hold- 
ing victory was certain, remained silent at the crimes of! 
their government, their army and navy. 

"At the congress at The Hague, to which she refused to 
go, the secretary of the National Council of German Women 
was invited to protest against the violation of Belgium and 

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against the torpedoing- of the Lusitania. She wrote in 
reply : 

" 'We are as one with our people. The men who took the 
responsibility for Germany are as dear to us as those who 
are shedding their blood for us on the battle field.' 

"To our indignant protest against the deportation of wom- 
en and young girls and when we showed that history might 
possibly bring a reversal of fortune, there was no response." 



EXTRACT FROM BERNE CABLEGRAM BY JULIAN 

GRANDE. 



When German secret documents are published the world 
will be appalled at the depths of degradation to which Ger- 
mans, with high sounding names and titles, sunk. Thus, 
after Italy's entrance into the war, Prince Von Buelow, in 
conjunction with the German consul general at Zur, was en- 
gaged in endeavoring to introduce poison bombs, cholera 
bacilli and germs for infecting horses and poisoning wells 
into Italy via Switzerland. This was proved by recent in- 
quiries of the Swiss authority which resulted in the imme- 
diate expulsion of the German consul general and vice consul 
at Zur. Von Buelow escaped from Switzerland and is now 
probably hiding somewhere in Germany. 



(From the New Orleans Item, Sunday, Nov. 24, 1918.) 
GERMANS PLAN UNITED FRONT AT PEACE TABLE. 



(By J. W. T. Mason, United Press War Expert.) 
New York, Nov. 23 — Germany is trying to postpone her 
experiment in democracy and is endeavoring to hold fast 
under a compromise regime for the purpose of presenting a 
united front at the peace conference and taking advantage 
of any differences German diplomacy may be able to create 
among the alhes. The actual happenings within Germany 
are being carefully concealed by the German censor. The 
Germans themselves have confessed that they do not know 

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whether Hohenzollem has officially abdicated or not. Prince 
Max has mysteriously dropped out of public life, and 
whether he is still Germany's self-appointed regent is an- 
other secret. 

Two different ministries have been announced from Ber- 
lin within a week, yet there has been no indication whether 
the second list, containing conservative elements, has for- 
mally replaced the first list made up exclusively of Socialist 
leaders. It is apparent the German people have not got 
their minds on their revolution. They are bent on saving 
what they can at the peace conference by the same old 
methods of "efficiency" that have brought disgrace and 
travail upon their country. 

The Germans are afraid to let themselves loose in their 
new freedom. They want to safeguard themselves from 
being too democratic, for they fear if that happens, they 
will become weakened and the allies will exterminate them. 
Chancellor Ebert has urged what in effect is this viewpoint 
upon Germans in a special proclamation. 



EXTRACT FROM EDITORIAL IN MEMPHIS COMMER- 
CIAL APPEAL, SUNDAY, NOV. 24, 1918. 

"Germany must pay for the wrong she has done either in 
kind or in surrender of commercial advantages. 

"The Germans may say that to restore Northern France 
and Belgium would be to beggar them for a hundred years. 
So be it. We have Germany's word, uttered by Hollweg, 
the prime minister, at the beginning of the war, as follows : 
'The law of necessity drove us through Belgium; we did a 
wrong when we went through their country, and we will 
have to pay for the damages we have done,' or words to 
this effect. So Germany should be made to pay Belgium 
for every brick and for every spool of thread wrongfully 
taken. Every act of destruction done in Belgium must be 
paid for, because, primarily, Germany was there not as an 
invader under a law of war, but as a highwayman. 

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"GeiTnany deliberately started out on this program. Ger- 
many realized what she was doing; and Germany built up 
a bill against herself. The account is due now. But Ger- 
many miscalculated on the bill collector. The bill collector 
is armed and Germany must pay unless some friend of the 
bill collector begins to beg her off. 

"Germany destroyed vast quantities of property in France 
in violation of the law of war. This destruction must be 
analyzed and that part of the wrong done unlawfully must 
be repaired in kind. If the process results in reducing Ger- 
many to a second-class power, so be it. 

"Bernhardi in 'The Next War' stated that Germany would 
never be safe until France was reduced to a second-class 
power. The Kaiser evidently approved Bemhardi's book 
because, during the war, Bernhardi was one of the crack 
commanders and was in great favor until he lost several 
fights. 

"If Germany took a chance on reducing France to a sec- 
ond-class power, by casting the dice of Mars, and loses, 
Germany has no complaint if France says that *we can be 
safe only when Germany is reduced to a second-class power-' 
That is what it amounts to. 

"Germany, by her conduct in beginning this war, and Ger- 
many, by her conduct in prosecuting the war, demonstrates 
her unfitness to be on equal terms with France and Italy, 
England and the United States. These four powers are 
willing to sit in conference, all equal, but Germany, in such 
an arrangement, is out of place, because Germany in any 
conference or arrangement holds herself to be first." 



BAVARIA SHOWS GERMANY LAID TRAP FOR WAR. 



London, Nov. ?6. — (By Associated Press.) — Publication 
of official reports from the Bavarian minister at Berlin to 
his home government confirm evidence already in the hands 
of the entente that Germany and Austria conspired to bring 
about the war. It was for this reason that the terms of 

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Austria's ultimatum to Serbia were made so drastic that 
hostilities were bound to follow. 

The revelations have been published in Munich after per- 
mission had been asked by the Bavarian premier and for- 
eign minister of the German federal government. They are 
in the form of a report sent to Munich on July 18, 1914, by 
Count von Lerchenfeld, the Bavarian minister at Berlin. 

According to the report the delivery of the ultimatum to 
Serbia was delayed until after President Poincare and Pre- 
mier Viviani of France, had gone to St- Petersburg, which 
would make it difficult for the entente nations to arrive at 
an understanding and take counter measures. 

Count von Lerchenfeld said that "Serbia obviously can- 
not accept such conditions as will be laid down," and that as 
a consequence "there must be war." He declared that 
action on the part of Austria could not be long delayed, "for 
that might give Serbia, under pressure from France and 
Russia, an opporunity to offer satisfaction." 

In a telegra-n to Municli frori' BerHn July 31, l^M 1, Count 
von Lerchenfeld said that Sir Edward Grey's efforts to pre- 
serve peace would "certainly not succeed in arresting the 
course of events," Later the same day he wired informa- 
tion as to ultimatums to Russia and France, florecast their 
rejection by both nations, and told of plans to hurl Ger- 
many's armies against France, which, he said, would be 
"overwhelmed in four weeks." 

He said that the morale of the French army was poor and 
that it was poorly armed. 

On August 4 the Bavarian minister outlined Germany's 
intention to violate Belgian neutrality, saying: "The chief 
general staff has declared that even British neutrality will 
be paid for too dearly if the price is respect of Belgium. An 
attack on France is possible only through Belgium." 



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(From the New Orleans States, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1918) 

FORTY-NINE PRIESTS KILLED AFTER 

TORTURE BY GERMAN INVADERS 



Malines, Belgium, Nov. 27. — (Havas.) — Forty-nine Bel- 
gian priests were tortured and put to death by the Germans 
during the occupation, Cardinal Mercier, the Primate of Bel- 
gium, declared in an intenaew today. He added that twelve 
thousand men were removed from his diocese to Germany, 
where they were forced to work. Other crimes committed 
by the Germans, the Cardinal said, were too long and too 
terrible to relate briefly. 



The fact that the stories of starvation in Germany were 
false shows that the Huns, true to foi-m, lied to the last. 



Extracts from cable with London date line published in 
the New Orleans Item, Wednesday, November 27, 1918: 

As the Chronicle editorially points out, 'The peoples 
which, a month ago, composed the central empires are debt- 
ors of the associated powers. Restitution and reparation 
must be bought from them on a colossal scale. It is out of 
the question that Belgium and France should be left to 
repair unaided the monstrous wrongs inflicted on them by 
the German nation simply because the Hohenzollerns have 
gone out of business. Nor can Great Britain forego the 
satisfaction of her claims in regard to her illegally torpe- 
doed merchantmen. 

" To do so would be in effect to legalize sea crimes. Some 
responsible government or governments will have to be set 
up by the German people, otherwise we might have no al- 
ternative but to occupy Germany ourselves for an indefinite 
period until the difficulties are cleared up. This coui'se 
would be taken with .the utmost reluctance." 

"Germany has been challenged again and again to pro- 
duce the whole correspondence between Berlin and Vienna 

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during July, 1914," says the Times. "She has never dared 
produce it. Will the new government dare — just to show 
the gulf between it and its predecessors? Bavaria has 
proved she was an accomplice of Berlin and Vienna- She 
supported them until they lost and now she shall not whiten 
her character in the eyes of the allies by blackening the 
record of her confederates." 

"The Kaiser, after taking every possible step to throw 
the allies off their guard, struck, expecting in a few weeks 
to have the world at his feet," says the Mail. "The revela- 
tions made by Bavaria will not surprise the allies nor dis- 
passionate historians in neutral countries." 

"Thus was the blood bath prepared. Is the Kaiser to 
be allowed to go without trial?" is the comment of the Ex- 
press. 



(From the New Orleans States, Thursday, Nov. 28, 1918.) 

GERMANS KEEP 15,000 PRISONERS 

IN MINES UNDER ARTILLERY PROTECTION. 



Paris, Nov. 28. — (Havas.) — Details of the systematic 
sequestration or destruction of machinery in the French 
factories in the Briey valley region is given by the corre- 
spondent at Briey of Le Journal. 

All stocks of merchandise, iron ore, cast iron and steel 
were first requisitioned by German inspectors and en- 
gineers, the correspondent says, and then fifteen officers 
and 100 men arrived to organize the destruction of the 
plants. German manufacturers visited the region and 
picked out certain pieces of machinery which they wished 
placed in their own plants, and these were shipped imme- 
diately to Germany. 

After these selections had been made the demolition of 
blast furnaces, steam engines, boilers, tools, gearings and 
electric light fixtures not connected with the actual working 
of the mines, was carried out, the employees of the plants 

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being compelled to aid the Germans in their devastation. 

In the meantime the exploitation of the mines was kept 
in full swing. Prisoners to the number of 15,000 were put 
to work with hardly any rest and under terrible discipline. 
The output of the mines was larger than in peace times, 
and, the correspondent adds, this enabled the Central Powers 
to hold out for four years. 



Let us not forget that the German women who are ap- 
pealing to America for food and a modification of the armis- 
tice are probably the same women who spat in the faces of 
wounded American and British prisoners. 



London, Nov. 28. — "It will be a great mistake to suppose 
the Kaiser is done with ; he has many adherents in Germany 
who are quite resolved not to take the recent defeat lying 
down," is the opinion given the Daily Mail's correspondent 
at The Hague by a Dutch citizen who spent the whole period 
of the revolution in Bremerhaven and has now returned by 
Holland. 

The returned Dutchman estimates the proportion of loy- 
alists to revolutionists as one to two, and he says a large 
number of soldiers are what might be called "true to the 
Kaiser." 

It must not be imagined, he insists, that the German 
Army, although less than before, has ceased to exist. On 
the contrary, he represents it as very much in existence, 
and, moreover, commanded by generals devoted to the for- 
mer Emperor's cause. 



Despite the fact that the Hun has a thick hide it can be 
rubbed into him. When the German admiral, Maurier, 
asked Admiral Sir David Beatty to sign an agreement that 
the German crews bringing the German warships to the port 
of surrender would not be ill-treated, Beatty tore up the 
document, saying: "Tell them they are coming to England. 
That will be enough." 

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EXTRACT FROM SPEECH OF JOSEPHUS DANIELS, 

Secretary of the Navy, at Buffalo, N. Y., on Thanksgiving 
Day, Thursday, November 28, 1918. 



"Germany must be dealt with firmly at the peace con- 
ference," said Mr. Daniels, "because the sins of her rulers 
and all who followed their spirits are black and bitter, and 
crimes deserve such treatment and such punishment as will 
protect the future. 

"But no policy of hatred," he said, "no spirit of ven- 
geance, should guide this world renewal. The protection of 
women and children knows no friends and no enemies. The 
rebirth of modem civilization should not go forward under 
any spell of mere revenge or malice to millions of men. 
Principle and justice, touched with mercy to the weak, 
should guide this congress, not passion or emotion." 



London, Nov. 28. — "German states, whatever their form, 
must pay the bill. Germany, as a whole, must be held re- 
sponsible for the consequences of the war," says the West- 
minster Gazette in discussing the situation that has devel- 
oped in Germany. 



On the wall of the room in which the peace conference is 
held should be placed a large placard reading: "Remember 
the Lusitania." 



(From the New Orleans Item, Thursday, Nov. 28, 1918.) 

GERMANS HAMMER MEZIERES 

UNTIL VERY LAST MINUTE. 



Paris, Nov. 28. — Dr. Albert Farvre, under secretary of the 
interior, who has just returned from a visit to the Ardennes 
department, which was so long entirely occupied by the Ger- 
mans, describes conditions there as having been greatly 
ameliorated by the food supplies furnished by the Spanish- 
American committee. 

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"On the other hand, the moral ill-treatment of the 200,- 
000 residents surpassed imagination and reduced the in- 
habitants to slavery. During the last hours of occupation 
Von Arnim bombarded Mezieres from the mills surrounding, 
beginning on Sunday, Nov. 10, and continuing until 10:30 
Monday morning — the day the armistice was signed, and 
one-half hour before it came into effect, reducing two-thirds 
of the town to ruins. 



NO HAIR-SPLITTING WANTED. 



On this point the average Frenchman and Frenchwoman 
will not tolerate any hair-splitting or shilly-shallying. As 
every Frenchman argues the fact that Germany is now a 
republic, or rather a series of republics, is no reason what- 
ever why she should not pay a heavy indemnity to recoup 
the loss she has caused. 



CANTERBURY PRELATE REPLIES TO 

BERLIN PROFESSOR'S APPEAL FOR MERCY 



London, Nov. 28. — (By Associated Press.) — The Arch- 
bishop of Canterbury, in replying to a message from Pro- 
fessor Deissmann, of Berlin University, transmitted by 
Archbishop Soderblom, of Upsala, imploring merciful treat- 
ment at the peace conference "in the nam.e of Christianity," 
says: 

"Professor Deissmann's statement as to the present situ- 
ation is not one which I cm accept as correct. He speaks 
of the European situation as though all that is needed on 
the part of Christian circles in the belligerent nations is 
'mutual forgiveness and concihation in order to fight in uni- 
son against the terrible consequences of the war and to serve 

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the moral improvements of the nations and of mankind!' " 

The Archbishop calls attention to the fact that on Sep- 
tember 22, 1915, he sent a letter to Professor Deissmann 
pointing out these essential matters, but received no reply 
except a verbal acknowledgment, and continues: 

"We have fought without hatred, and so far as possible 
without passion, and now that victory crowns the cause for 
which we fought we desire to be equally free from hatred 
and passion in the course we follow as victors. 

"But we cannot forget the terrible crime wrought against 
humanity and civilization when this stupendous war was let 
loose in Europe, Nor can we possibly ignore the savagery 
which the German high command displayed in carrying on 
the war. Outrages in Belgium in the early months, and, 
indeed ever since, the character of the devastation wrought 
in France, including the inhuman deportation of innocent 
civihans; the submarine warfare against passenger ships, 
like the Lusitania, and the rejoicings which ensued in Ger- 
many; the unspeakable cruelty exercised on defenseless 
prisoners down to the very end, including even the last few 
weeks, all these things compel the authorities of the allied 
powers to take security against a repetition of such a crime. 

"The position would be different had there been on the 
part, of Christian circles in Germany any public protest 
of these gross wrongs or any repudiation of their perpe- 
trators. 

"The peace we hope to achieve must be a peace not of 
hate or revenge, the fruits of which might be further and 
even more tei*rible strife- We wish by every means to avert 
that possibility. But righteousness must be vindicated, 
even though vindication involved sternness. There is, how- 
ever, as I need hardly say, no wish on the part of the allied 
nations to crush or destroy the peoples of Germany. Evi- 
dence to the contrary is amply abundant." 



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(From the New Orleans Item. Friday, Nov. 29, 1918. 
EX-KAISER PLANS TO RETURN TO 

GERMANY AT EARLY DATE AND 

RECLAIM THRONE, LONDON REPORTS. 



(By The Associated Press.) 

London, Nov. 29 — The former German Emperor contem- 
plates an early return to Germany to reclaim his throne, ac- 
cording to news received in London through a neutral source 
of high standing, says The Daily Mail. 

The newspaper says that the revolution in Germany is 
being managed by officers of the German high command, 
with a view of eventually causing its collapse and the 
triumphant return of the former Emperor to Berlin. Some 
of these officers in civilian clothes have been recognized in 
the streets of Berlin. Many of them are reported to be 
dressed as workmen. 

These officers harangued the crowd as comrades and in 
every way encouraged the revolutionary movements. It is 
added, however, that if opportunity offers they will abandon 
their disguise, contend that the revolution is a failure and 
begin a counter-revolution. 

Agents of these officers, it is declared, are furthering this 
plot by spreading anti-British propaganda in Holland, with 
the object of embittering the Dutch against the Allies. 

An interned German officer recently returning to Arn- 
heim from Berlin stated that the war was not yet fought out 
and that in Berlin the people were already preparing for a 
war in fifteen or twenty years. 



GERMANY MUST PAY TO HER LIMIT, 

SAYS LLOYD GEORGE. 



Submarine Pirates Must Be Punished, He Declares. 



New Castle, England, Nov. 29. — Germany must pay the 
cost of the war to the limit of her capacity, Premier Lloyd 



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George declared in a speech here to-day. 

The submarine pirates must be punished, the premier 
added, and whoever devastated the lands of another country 
ought to be responsible for it. 

Referring to the culpability of the authors of the war, Mr. 
Lloyd George said the government intended that the inves- 
tigation to be conducted should be a perfectly fair but a stern 
one, and that it should go on to its final reckoning. 

"I mean to see that the men who did not treat our prison- 
ers humanely be made responsible," the premier declared. 
He added that he did not wish to pursue a policy of ven- 
geance, but declared: 

"We have got so to act that men in the future who feel 
tempted to follow the example of the rulers who plunged 
the world into war, will know what is waiting for them at 
the end. 

"The submarine warfare did not mean only the sinking of 
ships but it was a crime against humanity in that it sank 
thousands of harmless merchantment. In the whole history 
of warfare between nations that had never been sanctioned." 



(From the New Orleans States, Friday, Nov. 29, 1918.) 
(By Permission.) 

TERRORISM FAILING, THE HUN 

IS NOW TRYING TEARS. 



(By Rev. Newell Dwight Hilhs.) 
The Huns are now trying sobs and tears. Only a month 
has passed since Solf announced that the sword of Germany 
was unbroken, that her people were well fed, that she had 
food and to spare, and that the Kaiser would soon inflict 
withering losses upon the Allies. A few days later, the 
Huns begged for an armistice, and the minute that agree- 
metn was signed the Hun started a dead run for the Rhine. 
Now comes another statement from the sam.e expert in 

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camouflage, Solf. The burden of the new appeal to the 
President is, "Germany is starving." Two weeks ago Solf 
shouts, "Our granaries are overflowing; we can carry on this 
war indefinitely;" now he sobs, "We have not a grain of 
wheat in our granaries, and without food from the Allies we 
will starve." With tears he insists that Germany is broken, 
frail as a reed, and that unless we bind up her wounds of 
hunger she must perish. The educated man says: "Solf 
could not be telling the truth both times ; Germany cannot 
be full and be hungry at the same moment." Solf must have 
been lying, therefore, either in the first or the second state- 
ment. As a matter of fact, however, Solf was lying both 
times. 

The old proverb is, "When you do not know on which side 
of the street to walk, take the middle of the road." When 
the Huns do not know which side will be victorious, and on 
which side to tell the most hes, they He on both sides, and 
thus play safe. Facts like these do not incline the Amer- 
ican people to begin to save so that we can feed the Hun. So 
far as is known, Germany has a better outlook for the win- 
ter than France, and far and away better food prospects 
than Belgium. We saw 1,900 prisoners on a late September 
day near Cambria, and these Germans were plump, well 
cared for. Having met a number of Germans in Switzer- 
land during early September, I cannot recall one who did not 
insist that the food conditions of the Fatherland were ex- 
cellent, and that there was bread enough and to spare for 
the coming winter. Plainly Solf is putting on the "sob" 
stuff. Terrorism, flames, looting, mutilations and frightful- 
ness have failed ; therefore why not try tears ? This is the 
essence of his plea : "If you do not leave us our ships, how 
can we obtain bread from Sweden? Think of our German 
children crying at night for want of a wheaten loaf." Well, 
the German stole the Red Cross supplies from the Belgians 
and allowed the Belgian children to cry and starve. It was 
not that the Hun left the Belgian and the French refugees 
with little food ; the big Hun officers and men robbed them 

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of the little bread they had, and slew them with hunger. 

It was not that the Hun left the people of the regions they 
had ruined with little clothes ; the Hun stole from their cap- 
tives such clothes as they had, and left them in rags. Few 
things are stranger than this: a fortnight ago Solf 
trumpeted from the house-tops at Berlin that Germany's 
military power and food supplies were all that could be 
asked, and within two weeks he pours out a flood of tears 
and says that Germany is starving to death ; and therefore 
Americans must begin to give up their meat, their butter, 
and their wheat, for fear the Hun, self -convicted of lying, 
will not receive food supplies. Our gullibility is most amaz- 
ing. The neurethenic woman may be excused for sending 
roses and wine jelly to a convicted murderer. Is any one 
able to explain why it is that American men are now en- 
gaged in asking our people to feed the Huns whose soldiers, 
when captured, are on the average, fat, sleek, and as well 
conditioned as our own men? During September, Mr. 
Barron, Mr. Furber and myself met scores of Germans in 
Switzerland, and we did not find the slightest evidence of 
hunger in Germany. Terrorism failed — tears may succeed. 
(Copyright, 1918, 21st Century Press.) 



(From the New Orleas Item, Saturday, Nov. 30, 1918.) 

INVADE GERMANY AND GET 

ALLIED PRISONERS, URGED. 



Paris, Nov. 30. — (By Associated Press.) — Deputy Fer- 
nand Merlin, in the Chamber of Deputies during a live debate 
in which he deplored German treatment of prisoners of war, 
urged the government to proceed into Germany snd bring 
back prisoners in automobiles. 

In the face of German's systematic default, said the 
deputy, "we must not abandon our unfortunate prisoners. 
We must penetrate into Germany and not alone control the 
girison camps but care for the prisoners and repatriate them, 
bringing them back by the use of medical automobiles." 

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(From New Orleans Times-Picayune, Sunday, Dec. 1, 1918.) 
PACKAGES SENT TO AMERICAN 

PRISONERS LOOTED BY ENEMY. 



Limburg Known as Mystery Camp Because of Its Many 
Strange Disappearances. 

London, Nov, 30. — Eight American former prisoners of 
war, the first men of this class to reach London, have arrived 
here. All of the men are in good condition. They were 
members of the One Hundred and Second Infantry and 
were captured last April at Seicheprey. They were at- 
tached to the Friedrichsfeld camp until their release Nov. 
15. 

All of them said they had been forced to work hard and 
were given insufficient food. They would have starved had 
it not been for the American Red Cross packages which were 
received at long intervals, they stated. 

The men said they were supposed to get an American Red 
Cross package weekly, but they were lucky if the Germans 
permitted this monthly. Even the packages received, espe- 
cially of soap, v/ere looted, according to the prisoners. 

Their treatment was varied in the different camps. In 
Darmstadt they endured civilian insults. While working in 
the roads they often were spat upon. After the armistice 
was signed guards and civilians "got down on their knees 
to us," they said. 

Limburg was called the "mystery camp" owing to the 
numerous disappearances of prisoners, the fate of whom 
never was revealed. 

He said : "The food was all but uneatable. Breakfast con- 
sisted of miserable coffee and a piece of bread ; lunch, soup 
containing bits of turnips, grass and potatoes, and always 
full of dirt and sand. We used to take out the potatoes and 
give the rest to the poor Russian prisoners. For weeks we 
had to labor on that diet." 



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REPARATION ASKED BY FRENCH 

PEOPLE OF HUN CRIMINALS. 



Famous Paris Editor Tells America Net to Be Too Generous. 

(By Stephane Lauzanne, Editor-in-Chief of "Le Matin.) 

If at this hour, when the dreadful nightmare is passing 
away, mutilated France could make another appeal to Amer- 
ica, her sister and friend, she would say to her: "Don't be 
too generous." 

Everyone will admit that throughout her long and 
troublous history France has always been the land of 
chivalry, generosity and humanity. Even in this atrocious 
war, when it came to hand-to-hand fighting in the trenches, 
she still felt pity. 

I shall never forget on the battle field of the Marne, at 
the village of Eetrepilly, plundered, sacked and burned down 
by the Huns, those Zouaves who were sitting beside some 
German wounded on a small square. In their own glasses 
they poured out a little cordial for their prisoners; they 
gave them their last cigarettes. One of them had even 
taken, as if he were his brother, the head of a wounded Ger- 
man in his left hand to support it. With his right hand, 
very carefully, he was giving him a drink. I pointed the 
scene out to a German major and said to him: 

"See ! That is war — at least it's war as we understand it." 

At Rheims, while the Cathedral was on fire — the work of 
German shells — French Sisters of Charity threw themselves 
into the flames to save German wounded. That also was 
war as we understand it. And" to-day, after four years of 
a horrible struggle, we can face the entire world and say 
that if there is blood on our hands there is none on our con- 
science. And yet we call out to America: "Don't be too 
generous." 

Two imperious and inexorable duties are before us: 
France must have guarantees. 

France must have reparation, for several of her depart- 

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merits — equal in area and wealth to the State of New York — 
have been laid waste, burned down and razed. Three hun- 
dred and fifty thousand houses have been broken into, pulled 
down and shattered into bits, and it has been computed that 
merely to rebuild them it would require an army of 100,000 
men, working for twenty years. Who is to furnish that 
army? France? No, but the destroyers and incendiaries. 
Of course, they will protest, and implore, and complain that 
it is sentencing German youth to hard labor. They will try 
to soften the hearts of neutral countries. In the name of 
common fairness, should they be listened to? 

There is one thing France cannot do, and that is to dis- 
tinguish between the German government and the German 
people. In 1914 it was undoubtedly the German government 
that hurled itself at the throats of France and Belgium, and 
humanity and democracy, but it was also the German peo- 
ple. And when, on the 3d of August, 1914, speaking before 
the Reichstag, that is, before the people of Germany, Beth- 
mann Hollweg made his abominable statement: "Yes, we 
have invaded Belgium, and this is against international law, 
but we are in a state of necessity, and necessity knows no 
law," not a shudder, not a tremor shook that people; not a 
cry of indignation was raised. 

There must be reparation, or it would be enough to make 
one despair of justice on earth. There must be punishment, 
or it will all begin over again. 

France must have guarantees, and in all organized so- 
cieties guarantee against the repetition of a crime is ob- 
tained by punishing the culprit. The German people have 
committed a series of crimes ; the German people must pay 
the price. The highest punishment that can be inflicted is 
to allow them to suffer some of the evils they have inflicted 
on others. 

And that is why, speaking to America, for whom we have 
a deep and abiding affection; America, to whom we are 
henceforth bound by ties of eternal friendship; America, 
with whom we have twice fought side by side for the noblest 

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ideals, we say to her : "For God's sake, don't be too gener- 
ous." 

What America wants we want as badly as she does. We 
want this horror to be the last ; we want free people to live 
free under the flag of Liberty ; we want our children and the 
children of our children to live proudly and happily and to 
enjoy the fruits of this earth without fearing a return of 
such abominations. But for this justice is needed, and there 
is no justice when the guilty go unpunished. 



TELLS OF ATROCITIES BY U-BOAT'S CREW. 



Shot Men on Life Boats and Lashed Them to Submarine. 

Cumulative testimony of the atrocities committed by the 
Germans in their submarine attacks upon British craft 
reached New Orleans Saturday, when W. E. Jones, a British 
sailor, who arrived here Friday, told of the treatment of the 
crew of the steamer Westminster, which he said was tor- 
pedoed last April in the Mediterranean sea. 

"The crew lowered the boats," Jones said, "and a sub- 
marine came to the top and shelled the lifeboats and killed 
the captain and fourteen men. One of the ships of the 
Cameron line was torpedoed. The crew of the submarme 
captured the crew of the British vessel, lashed them to the 
deck of the U-boat, threw away their life belts, and then 
submerged the submarine. Only one or two of the British 
crew escaped." 



FOCH WILL PROTEST TO BERLIN. 



Paris, Nov. 28. — (Havas.) — The French government, 
through Marshal Foch, will send a vigorous protest to Ber- 
lin concerning the treatment of war prisoners. Edouard 



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Ignace, under secretary for military justice and pensions, 
announced in the Chamber of Deputies to-day that the new 
government in Germany treated the prisoners no better 
than the old one. The brutality of the Germans could not 
be surpassed, he added, and the representatives of the Span- 
ish and Swiss missions which investigated the condition of 
prisoners will clearly show how deep into barbarity Ger- 
many has sunk. 



HAS FOOD FOR MONTHS. 



Germany Not Facing Starvation, Say Swiss Advices. 

Zurich, Nov. 29. — Food conditions in Germany are by no 
means so critical and urgent as Dr. Solf, the foreign min- 
ister, would lead the world to believe, according to informa- 
tion received here. Germany has food enough to last until 
April if the army reserve stores are placed at the disposal 
of the people. Those in reserve were drawn upon in Octo- 
ber to feed certain parts of the country, but they have been 
restored to their former condition from the last harvest. 
Since October they have not been touched. 

There should be no famine in Germany this winter, it is 
said, if strict rationing is enforced and stocks are method- 
ically and regularly distributed among the different states. 



ADMITS PROVOCATIVE WORDS. 



Bethmann-Hollweg Tells How Germany Had Chip on 
Shoulder. 

London, Nov. 30. — (British Wireless Service.) — Fuller 
reports of the statement published by Dr. von Bethmann- 
Hollweg, the former imperial German chancellor, in the 
North German Gazette, show that although he attempts 

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various arguments in excuse for his share in German guilt 
for the war he makes the following confession: 

"But above all, we must confess that by our deficiencies 
of national character and by the sins of our general be- 
havior we have contributed to the warlike tension which 
filled the air for the past few years. Words which might 
be taken as provocation were uttered repeatedly. The Pan- 
German activities at home and abroad have done us the 
greatest harm, but above all, our naval policy brought us the 
most fatal opposition." 

The answer to von Bethmann-Hollweg's general apologies 
may be found in the Berlin Tageblatt which, in taking the 
former chancellor to task, says: 

"Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg mentioned neither the Ger- 
man-British negotiations, which were concluded in July, 
1914, nor Sir Edward Grey's (then British foreign secre- 
tary) very reasonable and acceptable proposal for media- 
tion. Why did the German government reject this pro- 
posal? The ex-chancellor states himself that the Austrian 
ultimatum was too sharp, but in that case what objection 
could the German government raise against Sir Edward 
Grey's proposal ? If von Betiimann felt himself that wrong 
was committed against Belgium he had no right to submit, 
and if he was not able to carry his point he ought to have 
resigned." 



AUSTRIA FORCED TO STAY IN. 



Copenhagen, Nov. 29. — People of prominence in Vierina, 
who are in touch with the Foreign Department there, assert 
that, in 1917, when Count Czernin, then Austro-Hungarian 
foreign minister, sought by Emperor Charles' order to in- 
duce Emperor William to conclude peace, he was referred to 
supreme headquarters. When Count Czernin pointed out 
that Austria was exhausted and might be compelled to make 
a separate peace. General Ludendorff, striking the table, 
exclaimed : 



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"The same day that Austria concludes a separate peace, 
it will receive a declaration of war from Germany. That 
will be our only answer to such a breach." 



(From New Orleans Item, Sunday, Dec. 1, 1918.) 

EX-KAISER'S ABDICATION SAYS 

NOTHING OF CROWN PRINCE. 



Washin^on, Nov. 30. — The signing by William Hohen- 
zollern of a formal decree of abdication, as reported to-day 
in news dispatches from London, means absolutely nothing. 

This was indicated in a dispatch received by the French 
High Command from Berlin by way of Berne to-night. 
While the former Kaiser renounced his rights to the throne 
of Germany, no mention of the Crown Prince nor of the 
son of the Crown Prince was made, according to the dis- 
patch. And the Crown Prince, being the heir apparent to 
the throne, still can exercise a claim upon it, officials here 
said to-night. It was pointed out if the Hohenzollerns were 
to be eliminated entirely, it would be necessary to secure a 
similar decree from the Crown Prince, and another from 
him on behalf of his son. 

In fact, the reported formal abdication of the Kaiser was 
accepted here with the same suspicion that has marked pre- 
vious announcements of the same character. 

And with the Crown Prince still in line for the throne, 
reports of the development of the counter revolutionary 
movement in Germany, reaching here through semi-official 
channels, were received with obvious interest. 



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PRISONERS SUFFER STILL IN GERMANY. 



New Government as Cruel as Old, French Official Tells 

Deputies. 

Paris, Nov. 28. — (By Associated Press.) — The French 
government, through Marshal Foch, will send a vigorous 
protest to Berlin concerning the treatment of war prison- 
ers. Edouard Ignace, under secretary for military justice 
and pensions, announced in the Chamber of Deputies to-day 
that the new government in Germany treated the prisoners 
no better than the old one. 

The brutality of the Germans could not be surpassed, he 
added, and the representatives of the Spanish and Swiss 
missions which investigated the condition of prisoners will 
show clearly how deep into barbarity Germany has sunk. 
Parcels sent to French prisoners were stolen and robbed, 
and the sending of parcels was suspended after the signing 
of the armistice for that reason. 



A distinguished French economist, M. Andre Reclus, has 
suggested that it would be a wise, practical measure to seize 
the vast personal property and palaces of the late German 
Kaiser to help restore devastated Belgium and France. 



EX-KAISER TRICKY TO THE 

LAST, SAY LONDON PAPERS 



London, Nov. 30. — Grave charges are made against the 
ex-Kaiser of Germany in the press comment to-day upon 
his final abdication. Headlines were spread across the first 
pages and leading editorials were devoted to the subject. 
The text of the stories emphasized that the former Kaiser 
was full of trickery until the last. 

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The Evening News says: "Until the official text was 
printed there was not the slightest reliance to be put in the 
previous reports that the ex-Kaiser had abdicated. The lies 
were put out deliberately with the intent of deceiving the 
Allies and to cloak the movements for a counter revolution 
to restore the old regime, 

"It is now revealed that the famine whines were purposely 
exaggerated in order to arouse the pity of the Allies." 

The Pall Mall Gazette declares that the imperialistic in- 
triguers attempted to leave a loophole for themselves for a 
subterranean movement to restore the Hohenzollern dynasty. 



EXTRACT FROM LETTER OF G. W. CHRISTIAN. 



Favors Formation of Powerful World Army. 

To the Editor of The Item : 

I read daily some suggestion as to how the great peace 
conference can arrange for compelling a general and lasting 
peace all over the world. All seem to agree that ^ demo- 
bilization of all large armies is necessary; in other words, 
that no nation shall retain an army greater than is absolute- 
ly necessary to control possible internal disturbances. 

I sincerely hope our great peace council will not adopt such 
a policy, for I see nothing but failure written in the result of 
such a decree. Instead let all nations sign a solemn pact 
pledging united strength, civil and military, to maintain 
peace, justice and equal right to all nations, great and small. 
Let all nations select from their present armies in pro rata 
men sufficient to make an army and navy a little stronger 
than any one nation could mobilize should she determine to 
revolt; disband all other armies except this "world army," 
and disaiTn all vessels except this "world navy"; transform 
all war material into useful implements for peaceful pur- 
suits. By this means peace can undoubtedly be established 
and maintained. 

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GERMANY WILL BEGIN ERA AS 

WORLD LACKEY INSTEAD OF MASTER, 



(By International News Service.) 

London, Nov. 20. — (By Mail.) — After the Allies' needs 
are met, food will be allotted from the world's supply to 
Germany. That is the opinion expressed in well-informed 
political circles here. After Germany's war-fangs have 
been drawn there will be no vindictive world or Allied effort 
to prevent Germany's commercial rehabilitation, although 
her former plan of commercial infiltration as an adjunct to 
military schemes will be ruled out. 

Thus, there is no intention to reduce Germany to poverty. 
The plan, it is known, provides that Germany's commercial 
enterprises shall be nourished so that Germany will be able 
to pay fully for damage done in France, Belgium and other 
border lands. In other words, the Allies intend that Ger- 
many will not be allowed to avoid the payment on plea of 
"no industry, no goods, no lands." In fact, occupation of 
important Rhine valley towns by Allied forces is expected to 
continue until Germany has expiated her many war crimes. 

As proper punishment for unrestricted U-boat warfare, 
Great Britain is expected to insist, with full Allied approval, 
upon Germany relinquishing her entire mercantile fleet to 
Great Britain, and putting the shipyards at Hamburg and 
other German ports at work constructing new tonnage to 
make up the world's loss. Germany would not be allowed 
to control the new tonnage, but would be given the use of 
necessary ships for essential supplies. It is estimated Ger- 
many has about 2,500,000 tons of shipping lying at anchor, 
sufficient to pay, ton for ton, for only a small part of the 
Allied vessels her U-boats have destroyed. 

In other words, Germany as a nation will be at work many 
years after the war making good the material damage she 
has caused, contrary to international law, in her unbridled 
bid for world domination. Thus, instead of starting upon a 
career of being the world's master, Germany will begin an 
era of being the world's servant. 

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GERMANS PLAN TO ANNEX 

MANY TEUTONS IN AUSTRIA. 



Central Empire Would Gain 12,000,000 by Act. 

(By Floyd MacGriff, International News Service Staff 
Correspondent.) 

Ix)ndon (by Mail), Nov. 30. — Political circles here view 
with some apprehension the apparent German plan to in- 
corporate the 12,000,000 Germans of Austria into the Ger- 
man Empire, to offset the possible loss of 7,000,000 Poles, 
Alsatians and Lorrainers. Germany could well contend at 
the peace table that the 12,000,000 Germans in Austria 
should, upon purely racial lines, be added, if they so wished, 
to Germany. 

Thus Germany would come out of the war with a larger 
population than she had in 1914. There would be an added 
number of people to help pay Germany's war bill. 

Germany also plans, it is believed, to influence the future 
operations of the Hungarian Government, the Maygars 
being" first cousins of the Teutons. 

Just how the Allies will deal with this new phase of the 
situation, which undoubtedly will be an important question at 
the peace table, has not been decided, so far as it can be 
learned. Germany's plan to incorporate the Austrian-Ger- 
mans must be given consideration, because based on Presi- 
dent Wilson's principle of nationality along racial lines. 

Should the Germans of Austria be joined up with their 
kinsmen, Germany would remain the predominant race in 
Europe after the war. 



(From New Orleans States, Sunday, Dec. 1, 1918.) 
MUST SETTLE TO LIMIT. 



Loser Pays for Losses of Victor, Principle to Be Applied. 

(By J. W. T. Mason, Written for the United Press.) 
iNew York, Nov. 30. — Preliminary discussion of peace 



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terms that have already occurred among the European 
Allies has resulted in an agreement to demand an indemnity 
from Germany to the utmost limit of Germany's abihty to 
pay. The principle that the loser settles for the losses of 
the victor, which has been enforced at the end of previous 
Wc^rs, will mark the conclusion of the present war. Premier 
Lloyd George is the first to make known the acceptance of 
this doctrine, which Germany herself would have imposed 
upon her enemies had the German armies conquered the 
world. 

Having the German people securely bound, it is impossible 
to believe public opinion in the democratic countries would 
consent to any policy at the peace table freeing the followers 
of the Hohenzollerns without imposing a financial penalty. 
If the principle that Germany must restore Belgium, France 
and Serbia be accepted, it is just as logical that Germans 
should shoulder, as far as possible, the war burden they 
ci'eated for other nations. 

It is certain that Germany will not be prevented from con- 
spiring anew against the world unless the penalty for her 
recent murderous attack on the liberties of the democratic 
nations be made memorable. Remembrance of the German 
dead slaughtered by the vain offensives of the Hohenzollerns 
will not be a sufficient determent, for other nations have 
suffered in like measure. 

The domestic financial burdens of Germany will be met 
with no more difficulty than other countries, while the loss 
of German territory may be more than compensated for by 
the annexation of Austria to Germany. 

If the German people, therefore, are not forced to pay 
heavily for the losses they have caused the other powers, 
there will be no sufficierxt guarantee against a future 
gamble to win world dominion. 

It is not probable that the peace conference will attempt 
permanently to cripple Germany, but the present genera- 
tion of Germans will have to contribute, nevertheless, for 
the relief of taxation in the Allied countries. 

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This is the first great principle of the peace conference to 
be settled. The exact amount Germany will pay has not 
been determined. That is not a matter for the peace dele- 
gates themselves, but for their economic experts to decide. 
No previous indemnity has ever been imposed as this one 
will be. The economists will take into consideration Ger- 
many's present wealth and the productive capacity of her 
people, and will then assess all that the traffic will bear. 

The entire financial resources of Germany would not meet 
a fraction of the debt piled upon the world by the Hohen- 
zollerns' grab for power. It will not be possible in any case 
to take all of Germany's money. Enough, however, will be 
requisitioned to make a lasting remembrance. 



COLONIES TO BRITISH EMPIRE. 



Walter Long, secretary of state for the colonies, in a 
speech at Bristol, declared that the German people "need 
have no anxieties of any tenderness being shown toward 
Germany." He said that he could see no other solution of 
the German colonies question than their inclusion in the 
British empire, and explained that wherever the natives 
have been consulted they have been overwhelmingly in 
favor of this. 



BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS. 



(United Press Staff Correspondent.) 
Paris, Nov. 30. — The peace conference will begin in Paris 
on Dec. 16, according to the best information obtainable to- 
night. Only the star chamber sessions will be held in Ver- 
sailles. 

It is practically certain that several peace treaties will be 
signed. The first is expected to be a preliminary peace on 
broad teims, which will terminate the armistice and permit 
demobilization, ending the state of war. After that, the 
real job will begin — that of reconciling the interests of a 
score of allied nations. This will be done leisurely. 

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The final treaties will depend upon the central empire's 
settlement of their own problems. 

As the preliminary conferences will not begin before the 
middle of the month, the armistice probably will be pro- 
longed. When the Allies ultimately agree they will impose 
the terms upon Germany with little discussion, according to 
the feeling prevailing here. 

Germany's whines are merely serving to crystallize the 
Allies' grim determination to compel her to pay the fullest 
penalty. I have talked to all the leading statesmen, and 
they agree that this is the situation. 



EXTRACT FROM LETTER OF FRANK H. SIMONDS. 



A Healing Peace. 

But if the condition, and the only condition, of a League 
of Nations be to make a peace with Germany which will 
make the victims of German aggression ?nd violence in the 
past four years bear the eventual burdenf of that aggression 
then it seems to me that the price is coo high. And the 
danger is very real. Nor is there less danger that we may 
be brought to the position of seeking to lessen the effective- 
ness in Britain's hands of the one weapon on which our vic- 
tory in this war depended, namely, the British navy, oper- 
ating without regard to conventions, regulating the "free- 
dom of the seas." 

Even Utopia would be intolerable if in it only the red- 
handed murderer were to have immunity from the conse- 
quences of his recent crimes, merely because he had changed 
his name or his employer. More than this, we hear much 
to-day of a "healing peace," and certainly every one hopes 
that we shall have this blessing. But even a healing peace 
must be designed first to heal the wounds of the innocent 
victims before it strives to cure the wounds of those who 
were injured seeking to murder their neighbors. And if 

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any one is to bleed to death, to follow the figure of speech, 
it certainly should not be the women and children of France 
and Belgium. 



Paris, Nov. 28. — (By the Associated Press.) — The clothing 
and food situation in Rumania is causing gi-eat misery, 
George Danielopol, the newly-appointed Rumanian minister 
ot Washington, declared to-day. The German occupation of 
Rumania brought poverty everywhere. 

"The minions of von Mackensen were as cruel as those of 
von Bissing," said the minister. "Bucharest, like Brussels, 
has been stripped clean of everything." 



BY J. C. ABY. 



"For your to-morrow they gave their to-day" is engraved 
on the tombs of British soldiers in France. Few words in- 
deed, but they mean much. 



Premier Lloyd George has announced his determination 
to make the Huns pay for the crimes they committed, and 
we hop? he will. 



(From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.) 
GERMANY'S "HONOR." 



Germany asks the President to be careful of her honor. 
Has she been careful of her own honor? Has she ever 
moved to punish those blind leaders of hers that have 
brought dishonor upon her? We read that Captain Persius 
threatens to expose Admiral von Tirpitz, "after the war," 
but this means only the admiral's blunders, not his crimes. 
From what German voice of authority, from what public 
body, from what group of citizens, has there yet come one 
word in denunciation of those mad rulers who wickedly 
brought on a needless war, and who have stained its conduct 
by acts of lawless barbarity which have made the name Ger- 

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man anathema throughout the whole earth? It is hard to 
talk of her honor with a nation that as yet gives no sign of 
repentance for evil-doing or of a desire to make restitution. 
We do not ask that all Germans be required to chant a 
Miserere in unison, or march out to surrender with ropes 
around their necks; but we do feel that it is impossible to 
listen with patience to a people alleging its honor, while it 
has not taken the first step to put itself in a truly honorable 
light, or to show that its honor to-day is anything different 
from what it was a year ago when it visibly "rooted in dis- 
honor stood." — New York Evening Post. 



WHINES LIKE A WHIPPED DOG. 



— There is nothing like German humanity, whipped to its 
beautiful work by the scorpions of necessity. In five min- 
utes, as it were, an autocratic and cruel government tries to 
efl^ace the marks of four years' misconduct. Belgians de- 
ported in the most terrible circumstances, repatriated in 
"luxes" trains ; Liebknecht liberated amidst officially manu- 
factured rejoicings and scatterings of thornless roses; Bel- 
gian and French works of art, which had never been re- 
moved, according to earlier reports, now to be returned 
promptly on the coming of peace, according to the itemized 
schedules kept of them by the great staff — these are some of 
the amusing attempts of the Teuton quickly to create an in- 
ternational atmosphere of geniality. 

"We were always an excellent and kindly lot of cut-throats 
anyway." The absence of a sense of humor in these pro- 
ceedings passes belief. Bill Sikes, suddenly turned fawning 
sycophant, appeals less to clemency than Bill Sikes, unre- 
pentent. — New York Post. 



NOTHING OPEN FOR DISCUSSION. 



The fact that Germany fails to grasp the main point in 
the situation that confronts her is illustrated by the com- 



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fortable reflection of the Berliner Tageblatt, which says 
that, after all, there can be no harm in discussing any "ques- 
tions" at "conference tables." 



Many of the German statesmen are probably beginning to 
wonder how Germany is going to "get by" the committee on 
membership of the proposed League of Nations. 



Even if Wilhelm signs a formal abdication all the world 
knows it will be another "scrap of paper" to tear up if it 
suits his "all high" pleasure. The German is a law unto 
itself when it comes to keeping a contract . 



(From New Orleans Item, Monday, Dec. 2, 1918.) 
DEPORT ALIENS INTERNED HERE 

SAYS ROTARY CLUR 



Resolution Demands Country Be Rid of Germans Now in 

Enemy Camps — Democracy in Danger While Agitators 

Stay — Copies Sent to All Clubs in United States 

and Great Britain. 

Immediate deportation of all interned Germans in the 
United States is proposed by the Rotary Club of New Or- 
leans. 

"This is the time when the United States is cleaning 
house, and it is time to sweep out all enemy aliens who have 
shown by words or deeds that they are not in sympathy with 
the United States!" declared Frank Bethune, one of the 
Rotary Club directors and the man who drafted a resolu- 
tion adopted by Rotary. 

"I believe that every German interned in the United 
States should be deported as soon as released from confine- 
ment," Mr. Bethune continued. "They are out of sympathy 
with the government ; they are not people with whom Amer- 
icans care to associate. Keeping these enemies here is an 
injustice to citizens and to prospective citizens of this coun- 
try." 

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Mr. Bethune's resolution was brought before the Rotary 
Club some three weeks ago, and was revised and accepted by 
the club at its last meeting. Copies of the resolution were 
sent to the International Rotary Club for distribution 
among all the clubs of the United States, and to clubs in 
England, Scotland, Cuba, Guatemala and Canada. The New 
Orleans club has asked every other Rotary Club in the 
United States to vote upon this resolution and to urge their 
representatives and senators in Congress to give the matter 
immediate attention. 

The resolution follows: 

"Whereas, the United States Government has found it 
necessary to intern and otherwise punish certain persons 
because of their treasonable utterances or violent acts di- 
rected against the Government of the United States, or the 
governments with which it is associated in the war against 
Germany and her allies ; and, 

"Whereas, the releasing of such persons after the war or 
after their term of punishment has been completed, and al- 
lowing them to live among us would be a continuous danger 
to our Govermnent and to our citizens ; therefore, be it 

"Resolved, That this body goes on record as desiring the 
deportation of such persons when their term of punishment 
shall have been fulfilled, and suggest that they be deported 
to Germany and forever be forbidden entrance to the United 
States or to any of her possessions." 

Oliver H. Van Horn, president of the New Orleans Rotary 
Club, was equally strong in his approval of such a step. 

"These Germans and Austrians in times of peace were 
antagonistic to the government of this country," said Mr. 
Van Horn, "and when war was declared they used their in- 
fluence to thwart the aims of the Government." 



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BAN ON GERMAN STILL GOES, SAYS PLEASANT. 



Further Action By Assembly Is Necessary to Permit Use. 



Governor Pleasant indicates that he is of the opinion that 
the Simmons resolution against the German language is a 
mandate of the General Assembly to the State Board of Edu- 
cation, and that it will take another resolution to open the 
way to the teaching of German in the schools and the print- 
ing and distribution of reading matter in German. 

The governor states, however, that he does not know what 
the board will do about it. The governor will attend the 
Southern Commercial Congress at Baltimore Dec, 7 and a 
convention of Southern governors to be held in the same city 
shortly thereafter. 

"I am not prepared to say just what the board will do," 
says the governor, "but I am under the impression that the 
decision of this matter is entirely -taken away from the board 
by the Simmons resolution, which passed both houses of the 
General Assembly and was approved by me. I am not pre- 
pared to say decisively whether this resolution carried with 
it any discretionary provision relative to the teaching of the 
German language, but, if my memory serves me right, 1 
think that the matter will require another joint resolution 
of the General Assembly if resumption of the classes in Ger- 
man should be contemplated. 

"The Simmons resolution prohibits the printing in the 
German language of any newspaper, book, magazine, circular 
or periodical, and prohibits the teaching of the language in 
any public school of the State." 

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TURKS MASSACRE 700,000 

GREEKS SINCE WAR'S START. 



200,000 Others KiUed or Died of Suffering, Says Report. 



London, Dec. 2. — (Associated Press.) — Renter's Limited 
has received from a Greek source figures showing that in 
the spring of 1914 the Turks deported 700,000 Greeks, of 
whom 500,000 are now refugees in Greece. Since the war 
began to the end of 1917 the Turks deported 2,140,000 
Greeks and Armenians, of whom 900,000 Armenians and 
700,000 Greeks have been massacred and 200,000 mobihzed 
Greeks have been put to death or have died of their suffer- 
ings. 



KAISER OUT ONLY BECAUSE 

HE FAILED, THINK GERMANS. 



Paris, Dec. 2. — Discussing the situation in Germany 
brought about by the former emperor's act of renunciation, 
the National Zeitung, of Basle, according to a dispatch to 
L'Information, says: 

"The impression is made that the Hohenzollerns were dis- 
missed only because they failed to conquer and not because 
they violated all laws of humanity." 



(From the New Orleans Daily States, Monday, Dec. 2, 1918.) 

(Editorial.) 

GERMAN PILLAGE. 



In an address before the League for Pohtical Education 
the other day, Stephen Lauzanne, editor of the Paris Matin, 



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gave some interesting details of the systematic manner in 
which Northern France was pillaged for the benefit of the 
folks back home. 

He furnished proof that the "dear good German people" 
were fully in sympathy with the looting by reading: numer- 
ous letters which had been captured when German officers 
were taken prisoners. Here is a sample one : 

"Mansbach, July 8. 
"I have safely received the twenty-one parcels, and many 
thanks for them. I wish you could have been there on Sat- 
urday, at the unpacking of the five parcels, which I received 
together, to hear the remarks made at the sight of the pret- 
ty drawers, the petticoats, the shirt, the little bonnet and 
the shirtwaist. One could see that they came from ihe well- 
to-do. It would be best if you could go back to such places, 
you might find more things. Everything is useful to us. 

"YOUE MOTHER." 

When one reads a letter like this it is not hard to under- 
stand why the German peace delegation reported that there 
was no friendliness, little courtesy, only an icy expression of 
hatred for them in their meeting with the French officers 
in the forest of Compeigne. 

It was not the misfortune of the American people to suffer 
what the French people suffered at the hands of the German 
armies. If it had been perhaps the attitude of the Ameri- 
can people today would not be different from that of the 
French people, who are insistent that Germany shall pay 
in full for her crimes. 



BY J. C. ABY. 



Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, says 
the war revealed the fact that many of the drafted men did 



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not have sufficient knowledge of the EngUsh language to 
perform their duties. As a matter of fact thousanas of per- 
sons who come to this country never learn to speak English, 
and have no desire to, hence a good deal of material in our 
boasted "melting pot" does not melt and remains distinctly 
foreign. 



From all accounts, the cry of the Prussian junkers is : "The 
Kaiser is dead. Long live Bill Hohenzollern !" 



(From the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Tuesday, Decem- 
ber 3, 1918.) 
(Editorial.) 

FAMILIAR DODGE. 



One of the most difficult problems justice has to deal with 
is to keep the crook from purchasing his way to freedom, 
not through subornation of testimony or debauching the 
court, but in making seductive ofl"ers to the victim himself. 
How many thousands of embezzlers, thieves and misappro- 
priators of trust funds have escaped punishment by this 
argument: "Put me in jail and you lose all, leave me free 
and I shall be able to repay a part of what I have stolen." 

If the criminal is uncertain of the moral cahber of him 
defrauded he will whisper the offer humbly and softly, with 
protestations of contrition and good intent, but if he feels 
confident in the victim's weakness and avarice he will talk 
boldly with a take-it-or-leave-it manner of speech. 

A Prussian, ever stupidly self-confident, might have 
adopted the latter method, but the Austrian banker, quoted 
in extenso in a recent Associated Press dispatch from Vi- 
enna, speaks softly, though the argument is quite the same. 
His suggestion is that the AUied world shall allow the ex- 
Hapsburg empire to go free in order that it may be able to 
pay back the stolen wealth. Civilization is to permit the 
wrecked Dual Monarchy, in its new jig-saw-puzzle form, to 

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build up with our assistance a commercial and industrial or- 
ganization which, as Banker Treichel assures us, will in ten 
years be able to pay off its war indemnities. In their inter- 
est all tariff walls would be dynamited and all natural advan- 
tages held by us and other producers of raw materials would 
be put aside in order that Austria, and doubtless Germany 
as well, should be able to produce cheaply, overrun the 
world's open markets with manufactures produced by hun- 
ger-enslaved Huns. All this in order that we might recover 
from their profits money to repay the damage done by in- 
vasion and frightf ulness. 

The law rightly looks with utter condemnation upon such 
a procedure in private life and there is certainly no reason 
why a difference should be made when the same method is 
attempted wholesale. On the contrary there is a cogent rea- 
son why such a compounding of crime would be a serious 
economic error as well as a grave moral fault. Long before 
the threat of German-Austrian collapse became acute the 
French economists foresaw this very risk and it was set 
forth clearly in an extensive article in the Review des Beaux 
Mondes. It was then made plain that German after-the-v^ar 
efforts at commercial penetration would be along those ex- 
act lines and that it would be criminal carelessness or grav- 
est mis judgment of the situation if the peace delegations 
of the Allies should countenance any such suggestion. The 
Frenchman foresaw that the appeal would be doubly strong 
when thus addressed at the same time to the emotions and 
to the pocketbook: "Spare us, and permit us to pay!" 

Aside from the moral aspect of the case — which, however, 
we beheve is such that it alone should prevent us giving 
heed to the Teuton whisper — and even if the Austrian bank- 
er's ten years' payment is correct, what would be the posi- 
tions of the opposed nations at the end of that decade? Im- 
agine the power of an industrial organization so favorably 
placed that in ten years it could pay off obligations so colos- 
sal! Once freed of such a debt, what could stop this indus- 
trial "tank" from overwhelming competition and in placing 

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the Gei-man menace again in the front rank of civilization's 
troubles ? 

No, we must not palter with the criminal who promises 
to return our purloined purse. Let us send him to jail, search 
his premises and hiding- places for what is left of the loot, 
and charge the rest to profit and loss, and to experience. 



EXTRACT FROM MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT WILSON. 



"I have spoken of the control which must yet for a while, 
perhaps for a long while, be exercised over shipping because 
of the priority of service to which our forces overseas ai*e 
entitled and which should also be accorded the shipments 
which are to save recently liberated people from starvation 
and many devastated regions from permanent ruin. May 
I not say a special word about the needs of Belgium and 
Northern France? No sum.s of money paid by way of in- 
demnity will serve of themselves to save them from hope- 
less disadvantage for years to come. Something more must 
be done than merely find the money. If they had money 
and raw materials in abundance tomorrow, they could not 
resume their place in the industry of the world tomorrow — 
the very important place they had before the flame of war 
swept across them. Many of their factories are razed to the 
ground. Much of their machinery is destroyed or has been 
taken away. Their people are scattered and many of their 
best workers are dead. Their markets will be taken by oth- 
ers if they are not in some special way assisted to rebuild 
their factories and replace their lost instruments of manu- 
facture. They should not be left to the vicissitudes of the 
shai-p competition for materials and for industrial facilities 
which is now to set in. I hope, therefore, that the Congress 
will not be unwilling, if it should become necessary, to grant 
some such agency as the War Trade Board the right to es- 
tablish priorities of export and supply for the benefit of 
these people whom we have been so happy to assist in sav- 

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ing from the German terror, and whom we must not now 
thoughtlessly leave to shift for themselves in a pitiless com- 
petitive market." 



BELGIAN LOSSES OVER BILLION. 



Industrial Committee Reports Result of Investigation, 

Brussels, Dec. 2. — The Central Industrial Committee of 
Belgium, after an investigation, estimates Belgian damages 
through German military occupation and seizure of machin- 
ery and raw material at 6,000,560,000 francs ($1,200,112,- 
000). 

(From the New Orleans Item, Tuesday, December 3, 1918.) 
ALLIES MUST OCCUPY TURKISH ARMENIA 

TO SAVE THE PEOPLE, SAYS BRYCE 



London, Nov. 23. — (Correspondence of the Associated 
Press.) — In the opinion of Viscount James Bryce, former 
ambassador to the United States, "it is extremely desirable 
that every effort should be made to send in a sulficient al- 
lied force to occupy what was Turkish Armenia and re- 
establish some sort of order there." 

This view is expressed in a communication to the Man- 
chester Guardian, coupled with a regret that the conditions 
of the Turkish armistice failed to provide for the immediate 
occupation by the allies of the six Armenian vilayets and 
also of Silicia (modern province of Adana, on the Mediter- 
ranean). Lord Bryce says, however: 

"1 cannot think that this omission was due to any doubt 
as to the necessity and, indeed, the solemn duty ot deliver- 
ing all of the Armenian districts utterly and forcv^er from 
any vestige of Turkish rule. The British government," he 
continues, "has pledged itself so frequently nnd clearly to 
this deliverance, and, as we understand, both President Wil- 
son and the French government have expressed themselves 
so strongly in favor of such a policy that we cannot doubt 
the honest purpose of the government. 

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"It need hardly be said," the statement goes on, "that to 
leave the Eastern Christians of Armenia and Syria under 
Turkish rule would excite the warmest indignation all over 
the country and, if possible, still warmer indignation in the 
United States, where the interest in Armenia has been ex- 
tremely great and has been evinced by the enormous con- 
tributions which have been made to the relief of the Ar- 
menian refugees. 

"Can anybody in this country be found who thinks that 
after the three hideous massacres which the Turks have 
perpetrated in Armenia since 1895, culminating in tiie worst 
massacre of all in 1915, when 800,000 Christians perished 
it would be possible for any Christian power, or indeed any 
other power of human feelmg, to leave the Turk free to 
begin oppression afresh, or to fail to show by turning the 
Turk out of the country the anger and horror which his 
cruelty have excited ? I need hardly add that the presence 
of Turkish rule in these regions, with their great strategical 
importance, would be material to Germany, if ever she 
saw her chance, in realizing her scheme for pushing her in- 
fluence towards Persia and central Asia. 

"One fails to see any reason why the Turks, bemg abso- 
lutely at the mercy of the Allies, and having committed, with 
the tacit approval of Germany, the hugest single crime that 
has been committed in the course of the war, should not 
have been compelled to an absolutely unconditional surren- 
der. Why should any favorable conditions have been grant- 
ed to them who have shown that, whether under Aodul Ha- 
mid or under ruffians like Enver and Talaat, they are capa- 
ble of the most revolting crimes?" 



GERMANS DENOUNCE OWN "TERRORIST" PLAN. 



Explosives and Bacilli Ctiltures Provided Italian and French 

Anarchists. 

London, Dec. 23. — (By A. P.) — Condemnation ol the "ter- 
rorist" service organized by the Germans in Switzerland is 



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voiced by the Frankfort Gazette, in its issue oi Nov. 23, 
which gives the German public an idea of what was being 
done in Germany's behalf in this neutral country at the be- 
hest of the highest German authorities. 

"The trials in connection with the discovery of bombs at 
Zurich," says this German newspaper, "have led to the dis- 
closure of a 'terrorist' service of the German general staff 
in Switzerland. With the support of diplomatic and con- 
sular couriers, explosives and bacilli cultures were supplied, 
especially to Italian and French anarchists, in order that 
they might practice sabotage in their countries and spread 
disease among the army horses. 

"Of course, the German employees in this service had 
not the slightest guarantee against the employment of these 
methods in Switzerland itself. In some of the Svviss news- 
papers the opinion is expressed that the German authorities 
would not have been displeased at the outbreak of disorders 
in Switzerland itself, because they hoped for the consequent 
infection of neighboring countries, of course witii the ex- 
ception of Germany, which they held to be absolutely im- 
mune. 

"This terrorist service was not the mere work of subordi- 
nates. Quite definite accusations are made against even the 
former imperial chancellor, Prince Von Buelow. Hitherto, 
in similar cases, the Geraian public has been peimitted to 
learn only half the truth. Now, when the barriers have 
fallen and speech is free, we can give Switzerland the as- 
surance that this incendiary diplomacy is not countenanced 
in Germany any more than it is in the countries which have 
to bear the evil consequences." 



GERMAN OFFICERS BURN INCRIMINATING PAPERS. 



Paris, Dec. 3. — (Havas.) — ^The German Foreign Office de- 
stroyed by fire all damaging documents in the archives of 
the German general government at Brussels and destroyed 



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all documents in Berlin which might be useful in placing re- 
sponsibility for the war on the German government, Herr 
Melkenbuhr, a former socialist member of the Reichstag, 
declared in a speech at Berlin, according to advices received 
here. 

The revelations of Melkenbuhr, the Paris newspaper de- 
clares, throw a singular light on the proposal of Dr. Solf, 
the German foreign secretary, to have a neutral commission 
inquire into the origin of the war. 



THE BILL AGAINST GERMANY. 



The proposals which have actually been considered or are 
being examined include the following: 

1. That there should be cash payments over a term of 
years for damage inflicted on France and Belgium. This is 
estimated at from £2,000,000,000 to £2,500,000,000. 

2. That ruined towns in these countries should be re- 
built by German labor, that roads should be rebuilt and bat- 
tlefields dug over and restored, and scattered metals col- 
lected for the allies, also by German labor. 

3. That there should be a shipping indemnity paid by 
Germany, whether by a "two pool" arrangement between 
the allied and central powers, whereby German ships should 
serve world interests, or by building in German yards ships 
for the British mercantile marine, or other means. 

4. That a larger indemnity payment than the sum re- 
quired to requite the damage done in France and Belgium 
should be called for, spread over a term of years, to make 
good other losses to the allies. 

5. That the gold still available in Germany should be 
made over to the allies. 

6. That there should be a royalty on German coal mines, 
paid to the allies for a term of years, and that there should 
be allied control of German potash. 

7. Restoration in Italy, Serbia and Rumania. 

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LONDON POST DEMANDS PROOF 

OF KAISER'S ABDICATION 



London, Dec. 3. — (British Wireless Service.) — (By A. P.) 
— The Morning Post, commenting on the former German em- 
peror's belated abdication, says: 

"It is possible the document purporting to be the formal 
abdication of the German emperor is genuine, and it is equal- 
ly possible that it is nothing of the kind. In either case, the 
instrument contains no word concerning the succession of 
the dynasty, nor is it countersigned by any responsible of*- 
ficial. 

"If, however, by virtue of that paper William 11 has in 
fact abdicated the throne of Prussia and the overiordship of 
Germany, he has been staying in a neutral country under 
false pretenses. His abdication was announced formally 
by what was the German government when he fled into Hol- 
land; so that his condition in that country was ostensibly 
the condition of a private person. It now appears that he 
was really king and German emperor until Friday last. In 
that case the hospitality of Holland has been abused. 

"It is also worth noting that the written abdication is 
published at the moment when there is a demand for the 
extradition of the visitor. What proof of his abdication, 
it may be asked, did the German emperor preseni to the 
Dutch government when he crossed the frontier? If no 
such proof was offered, it seems that the royal fugitive 
should have been promptly interned as a deserter." 



Oosterland, Holland, Dec. 3.— (By A. P.)— "I have not re- 
nounced anything and I have not signed any document what- 
ever," the former German crown prince declared to the cor- 
respondent today. 



NORTH GERMAN-LLOYD AGENT CONFESSES PLOT. 



San Francisco, Dec. 3. — Robert A. Capelle, former agent 
of the North German-Lloyd Steamship Company, who was 

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sentenced to- fifteen months' imprisonment for his connec- 
tion with a Hindu conspiracy to overturn British rule in 
India, pleaded guilty yesterday to indictments charging him 
with conspiracy in 1914 in connection with the alleged pro- 
visioning of German warships at sea by the steamer Sacra- 
mento. Capelle was one of the leading figures in the Hindu 
cases, the evidence showing that he handled large sums of 
money paid the Hindus by the German government. 



GERj\!AN SPIES CONTINUE ACTIVITIES IN BELGIUM 



Brussels, Dec. 3. — (By A. P.) — The German espionage 
service in Belgium continues active, notwithstanding the ar- 
mistice, according to the Gazette. In a village near Brussels 
the police arrested two German soldiers disguised as women 
who were taking photographs of passing French troops. 



MANY STARVE TO DEATH. 



The prisoners in Germany and Austria who have not been 
supplied with food and clothing by their governments are 
in a deplorable condition, and many thousands of them have 
died of starvation. This is especially true of Italian pris- 
oners. 



(From the New Orleans States, Tuesday^ Dec. 3, 1918.) 
HOLDS BERLIN INCAPABLE. 



Bavarian Piemier Says Revolutionary Government Has No 

Voice. 

Amsterdam, Dec. 3. — The old governmental machine in 
Berlin is still operating, according to Kurt Eisner, the Ba- 
varian premier as quoted in the Telegraaf of this city. Eis- 
ner, in speaking at today's meeting of the Soldiers' and 
Workmen's Council for Bavaria at Munich, the Telegraaf 
states, announced: 

"Last week I went to Berlin, where the entire machinery 

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of the old g-overnment is still working." 

Referring to the revelations made public at Munich in the 
form of documentary evidence of Germany's responsibility 
for the war, Eisner is quoted as saying: 

''From the secret documents of the Bavarian legation 1 
published those which will prove to the silliest to whom we 
owe the war." 



EXTRACT FROM LETTER OF FRANK H. SIMONDS. 



Position of America. 

Looking to the future, one thing is clear. The mass of 
the American people have been completely united in the 
prosecution of this war to a victorious conclusion. They 
have agreed in every step taken to aid our allies and increase 
our contribution to the common cause. It was only when 
Mr. Wilson began to exchange notes with Germany that 
there was the first break in public opinion and the break was 
an ultimate proof that the nation was determined to defeat 
Germany, to compel unconditional surrender, to do no talk- 
ing until the German was incapable of further fighting. 

Not less clear was the indication that the country v/as 
united in the determination to compel Germany to pay the 
costs of her crimes, to restore what she had stolen, to sur- 
render what she had annexed. Every German manoeuver 
and trick calculated to save Germany from the just conse- 
quences of her crimes has been greeted with universal in- 
dignation in America. 

Finally, again and again we, as a people, have proven our 
ever-growing appreciation of what our associates have done 
in this great war, and particularly of what Great Britain 
and France have done in a cause we only tardily recognized 
was our own. Today the mere suggestion that either for 
Utopian or personal considerations we should be brought 
into conflict v,ith our allies is received with prompt and im- 
pressive disapproval. 

GG 



(From New Orleans Times-Picayune, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 

1918.) 
COMMANDER OF BRITISH FLEET SAYS 

HUMILIATING END WAS PROPER 



London, Dec. 3. — (British Wireless Service.) — A scathing 
denunciation of the personnel of the German navy was made 
by Admiral Sir David Beatty, commander-in-chief of the 
British grand fleet, in a speech addressed to a gathering of 
representatives of the first battle cruiser squadron on board 
the battle cruiser Lion prior to the ship's departure for 
Scapa Flow, as an escort to the surrendered ships of the 
German high seas fleet. 

"We had expected them," said Admiral Beatty, "to have 
the courage that we looked for from those whose work lies 
upon the great waters, and I am sure that the sides of this 
gallant old ship, which have been well hamm.ered in the past, 
must have ached as I ached ,and as you ached, to give them 
another taste of what we had intended for them.. 

"Tlieir humiliating end was the proper end for an enemy 
who has proved himself so lacking in chivalry. At sea his 
strategy, his tactics and his behavior have beerx beneath 
contempt and worthy of a nation which has waged war in 
the manner in which the enemy has waged war. 

"We know that the British sailor has a large heart and 
a short memory. Try to harden the heart and lengthen the 
memory, and remember that the enemy which yoii are look- 
ing after is a despicable beast, neither more nor lebs. He is 
not worthy the sacrifice of the life of one bluejacket in the 
grand fleet, and that is the one bright spot in the lact that 
he did not come out." 



CITIZENS LODGE FORMAL COMPLAINTS 

AGAINST FORMER GERMAN EMPEROR 



Paris, Dec. 3. — (Havas.) — French citizens are lodging 
complaints with Attorney General Lescouve regarding 



crimes committed by the German armies under William Ho- 
henzollern, the former emperor. Several persons who lost 
relatives in the bombardment of Paris by the German long- 
range guns have filed their complaints. 

In the case of Madame Prieur, whose husband was killed 
on the torpedoed mail steamer Sussex, the attorney general 
declares that the steamer was an extension of French soil 
and consequently the French authorities are competent to 
make an investigation. 



ALLIES MAY CONTROL RAILROADS 

AND COAL AND POTASH INDUSTRIES 



London, Dec. 3. — (By the Associated Press.) — Downing 
Street, where the reresentatives of the allies began discus- 
sions yesterday in connection with the approachmg neace 
conference, again assumed a busy aspect today. Early this 
morning there was a meeting of the war cabinet with rep- 
resentatives of the dominions in attendance. Then the con- 
ferees were joined by M. Clemenceau, the French premier, 
and Signor Orlando, the Italian prime minister, and other 
representatives of France and Italy, 

It is understood that in addition to the fate of tne former 
GeiTnan emperor the discussion turned largely upon Ger- 
many's ability to pay reparations and that in this connection 
the suggestion was made for the allied control of the Ger- 
man railways and its coal and potash industries. 



BY J. C. ABY. 



. The Detroit Free Press says that in time Germany will 
be as ashamed of the Hohenzollerns as the rest of the world. 
Maybe so, but we wouldn't like to bet any money on it. 



It is true that Germany has surrendered her navy, but 
she will never be able to get rid of its infamous record. 

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(From the New Orleans Item, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1918.) 
ENGLISH RULER'S OPINION CAN 

"HARDLY BE REPRODUCED VERBATIM" 



London, Nov. 28. — (Corresopndence of the Associated 
Press.) — What does King George really think of his cousin, 
William Hohenzollem, former German emperor? 

That is a question that has often been asked but has never 
received anything approaghing an authoritative answer. Ac- 
cording to a writer in the Daily News, which is usually very 
careful as to the trustworthiness of what it prints. King 
George regards him as "the greatest criminal in the world." 

The writer says that he was talking a few days ago with 
a well-known statesman who has had many opportunities 
during the war, and especially lately, "of hearing the King 
express his views of the Kaiser." And he thus summarizes 
what the "well-known statesman" told him : 

"My informant says that the King's feelings and expres- 
sions are so strong that they could hardly be reproduced 
verbatim, but that the substance of them is that the Kaiser 
is the greatest criminal in the world today; that he is di- 
rectly responsible for the outrages on the Belgian and 
French civil populations; for the bombing and air raids on 
the innocent inhabitants of unfortified towns; for the tor- 
pedoing of passenger and hospital ships and the sinking of 
survivors in their boats; for the first use of poison gas; 
the poisoning of wells; the destruction of works of art, of 
historic buildings, of beautiful towns and the machinery of 
industrial life and potential reconstruction ; that he has not 
only permitted those things to proceed, but was in many 
cases a personal assenter to and director of them." 



AMERICAN RELIEF WORK IS AIDED 

BY ALLY WHEN MOST NEEDED 



With the British Army of Occupation, Sunday, Dec. 1. — 
(By A. P.) — The British army is rendering great assistance 

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to devastated and impoverished Northern FYance and Flan- 
ders. During November the army furnished to the Ameri- 
can Commission for Rehef in Belgium 20,000,000 rations 
which were badly needed for quick distribution imong the 
hungi-y people. 

This aid came at a time when the commission was unable 
to get provisions through speedily enough from Holland. 
British officers and soldiers are also giving largely from 
their own stores, and the British army is providing great 
quantities of kerosene and candles for the homes and shops ; 
otherwise darkness would prevail in most of the towns. 



FOOD PLENTIFUL IN GEEMAN CITIES; 

STARVATION STORIES CAMOUFLAGE 



(By Edwin L. James. Item-New York Times-Chicago Tri- 
bune Service.) 

Treves, Germany, Dec. 2. — (Delayed.) — Because Germany 
is asking America to feed her, I paid strict attention to the 
food situation when the American army of occupation en- 
tered this city yesterday. In the twenty-four hours we 
have been here, one thing that has impressed the Americans 
is the comparatively plentiful food supply. This city of 
75,000, an industrial center, appears sleek and prosperous 
and the persons of its inhabitants show no ravages of hun- 
ger. The bread is poor, and of coffee there is none. Other- 
wise food can be had of many kinds. 

It seems that at the time when America is ready to stint 
herself and her friends, to feed unrepentant Germany, a 
statement should be made that the food conditions here to- 
day are better than in that part of France occupied by the 
Germans. And the German army has just passed through. 

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* 

EXTRACT FROM EDITORIAL. 



People who cry for sudden death or isolation for William 
and his offspring have poor imaginations. The glory of 
being a tragic figure in history or of being deemed danger- 
ous enough to the peace of the world to be held fxs a pris- 
oner of state would make them as happy as a morbid mur- 
derer who is permitted to speak from the window of the 
jail just before the sheriff pulls the lever. Nothing more 
dreadful could be devised for them than to leave the aged 
offender to listen to interminable sermons in Dutch and 
Frederick William to hang around a dreary fishing town, 
trying to play billiards on a dilapidated table and keep warm 
by an odorous oil stove. 



(From the New Orleans States, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1918.) 
NO MITIGATION OF NAVAL 

TERMS FOR THE ARMISTICE 



Copenhagen, Dec. 4. — The reply of Admiral Beatty, com- 
mander of the British grand fleet, to a request by Germany 
for mitigation of naval terms for the armistice, refuses any 
concession regarding merchant shipping or fishing in the 
North Sea, the Berlin Wolff Bureau states. 



New York, Dec. 4. — Asserting that the United States had 
not done nearly as much as the British navy and the Brit- 
ish, Fi-ench and Italian armies to bring about the downfall 
of Germany, Theodore Roosevelt declared in a statement 
here last night that it is "our business to stand oy our al- 
lies at the peace conference." 

He declared it "sheer nonsense" to say the American army 
was fighting for President Wilson's famous "fourteen 
points." He made the assertion that "there was not one 
American soldier in every thousand who ever heard of 
them." 



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SWISS WANTS NEUTRALS TO ASK PEACE SEATS. 

Berne, Dec. 3. — (By the Associated Press.) — Dr. Widmer, 
of Wolfingen, introduced a resolution in Parliament today 
inviting the Swiss government to immediately approach 
other neutrals for the purpose of estabhshing jomtly the 
claims and rights of neutral nations at the peace confer- 
ence, particularly relative to a future league of nations. 



EXTRACT FROM CABLE FROM ROTGEN, DEC. 1. 



Well Dressed and Fed. 

The German people encountered today appeared to be well 
fed. They were dressed very well and their farms looked 
prosperous. Large numbers of cattle and cows were to be 
seen. Outwardly the villages showed no signs of distress. 
It was impossible that the Germans along at lease this sec- 
tion of the border could have felt the hand of war exces- 
sively heavily. 



BY J. C. ABY. 



A few years ago Bill Hohenzollern, then a monarch and 
a tyrant, said to the German people: 'Only one is master 
in this country. That one is L Who opposes me I will crush 
td pieces. All of you have only one will, and that is my 
will ; there is only one law, and tiiat is my law." When his 
mihtary machine was smashed the same Bill Hohenzollern 
fled to Holland for fear he would suffer the fate of Actcon, 
who was destroyed by his own dogs. 



The statements the former Kaiser is now makmg in an 
effort to evade responsibility for the war merely show that 
he, like other Prussians, is a clumsy liar. 

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EXTRACT FROM LETTER OF FRANK H. SIMONDS 



Collapse of German Idea. 

The Invasion of Germany is the final demonstration of 
the German idea. The fleet has crawled to a British port 
and hoisted the white flag. The army has surrendeied with- 
out condition, leaving its artillery and its machinery behind 
it, and is slinking back home. 

And now the enemy is coming — he cannot be checked or 
resisted. His will is law west of the Rhine. He may be 
rude or considerate, heavy-handed or gentle, civilized or 
German, but he can be what he will. 

And to me the accounts of correspondents, who describe 
the stupefied silence of the populations of German cities as 
the army of occupation marches in, are of supreme inter- 
est. They are the last sign and evidence that a great fact 
has been established — the Gennan dream of world power 
is over — the long task of reparation and restoration has be- 
gun — ^militarism is kaput — Germanism has failed. 



(From New Orleans Times-Picayune, Thursday, Dec. 5, 

1918.) 

GERMAN BRAGABOCIO. 



Hindenburg Makes Appeal^ — Asks His "Unbeaten" Soldiers 

to Be Patient. 



Washington, Dec. 4. — The Berlin Tages Zeitung of Mon- 
day says that Field Marshal von Hindenburg addressed the 
following proclamation to his troops : 

"The preliminary work for a land settlement on a big 
scale is in progress and will be pushed forward as rapidly 
as the shortage of coal and of building materials will permit. 
The returning warriors will first receive the thanks of the 
country for more than four years' work in a thousand 
battles in which they were unbeaten." 

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'UNVANQUISHED BY ARMS." 



Conquered by Hunger and Need, Says Ex-Crown Prince. 



Copenhagen, Dec. 4. — (By Associated Press.) — The 
former German crown prince's last proclamation announc- 
ing that his resignation from his command was necessi- 
tated by the emperor's resignation and thanking the troops 
for l;heir heroism and self-sacrifice, is published to-day by 
the Taglische Rundschau of Berlin. In this proclamation, 
Frederick William, who is now interned on the Island of 
Wierington, having fled to Holland, says : 

"My army group is unvanquished by arms. Hunger and 
bitter need conquered us. We can quit the soil of France 
proud and with heads erect. Your shield, your honor as 
soldiers, are unspotted. -* * *" 



EXTRACTS FROM LONDON CABLES. 



Herr Hardin bitterly denounces the sudden conversion of 
all the junker elements to democracy and support of the 
new government. 

"Yesterday," he declares, "they were bloodthirsty, with 
the will to victory. To-day they are knights of the spirit, 
raising *a disgraced civilization' up to pure glory." 

"The German militarism conspiracy is defeated, but the 
victory for which the President appealed is not won. His 
coming to Europe will help win it., but until it is achieved 
America must take precautions against its failure." 



EXTRACT FROM ROTGEN CABLE, DEC. 2. 



It was necessary repeatedly for the correspondent to halt 
his car and ask his way, for all the signboards had been de- 
faced in order to give the Allied troops as much trouble as 
possible. A courteous response invariably was given to 
questions, but evidently through fear and not friendship. 

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EX-KAISER'S ABDICATION MAKES 

CROWN PRINCE KING. 



London, Dec. 4. — (British Wireless Service.) — The 
Times, in discussing the former German emperor's act of 
renunciation, points out that there is still room for doubt 
whether his abdication is legal, and adds: 

"Moreover, the only effect of the emperor's abdication 
under the Prussian constitution is to make the crown prince 
king of Prussia, and, therefore, until the German Empire 
is formally dissolved, the German emperor. Last Thurs- 
day's document, therefore, does not abolish the Prussian 
monarchy and still less does it set up the republic of Prus- 
sia. It can only be done by a formal revision of the Prus- 
sian constitution, and until that is carried out the Prussian 
monarchy still exists according to law, if not according to 
fact, and all the emperor's abdication amounts to is a decla- 
ration of his present intention not to exercise certain legal 
rights. 

"But these rights would be still suspended, not abolished, 
whatever the emperor may do or say, and should a mon- 
archial counter-revolution break out he could, presumably, 
change his mind and be brought back. These are points of 
great practical importance, and if the Germans have made 
up their minds to get rid of the monarchy it is highly desir- 
able that they should lose no time in clothing the deposition 
of the Hohenzollerns in legal form." 

The abdication of the German crown prince was expected 
to be published to-day, says the North German Gazette, the 



former semi-official organ, according to advices received 
here. The abdication will not concern his successor, it is 
added. 

The correspondent at Amsterdam of the Daily Express 
calls attention to the fact that former Emperor William's 
act of renunciation was dated at Amerongen, Nov. 28, and 
was published in Berlin Nov. 29, and adds : 

"It is obvious that telegraphic communication between 
Amerongen and Berlin is neither cut — as might be expected 
in the case of communication between an exiled monarch 
and revolutionists — nor is it subject to the delay that all 
messages sent by ordinary mortals meet with. 

"Many persons consider that both the document and the 
manner of its publication more than ever justify the Allies 
in keeping a watchful eye on William, even if he pretends 
to be slumbering." 



(From New Orleans Item, Thursday, Dec. 5, 1918.) 
BARBAROUS TREATMENT CHARGED AGAINST 

GERMANS BY MEN REACHING HOLLAND. 



(Item-N. Y. Times-Chicago Tribune Service.) 
The Hague, Dec. 5. — One hundred and twenty American 
prisoners arrived at Nymegen, Holland, where they will re- 
main until there is available transport accommodation from 
Rotterdam to England. These men are from the One Hun- 
dred and Sixth and One Hundred and Seventh Regiments, 
mostly from New York and North Carolina. 

They said their one idea was to celebrate Christmas at 
home. The prisoners were captured between Sept. 25 and 
30, but were kept in a detention camp behind the lines until 
a week before the armistice was signed. They said their 
treatment was barbarous in the detention camp, many 
slightly wounded dying owing to gross neglect because the 
German doctors refused to give adequate attention to slight 
wounds, which they said could wait. They said this was in- 
excusable, as there were plenty of doctors standing around 

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idle. But they appeared only interested in the frightfully 
mutilated cases. The wounded were often obliged to walk 
miles without their wounds being dressed. 

One boy who had a slight bullet wound was i-efused at- 
tention and made to walk miles in bad condition until blood 
poisoning set in. He died. The prisoners bore this treat- 
ment philosophically. They said the universal question put 
them in Germany was: "Why did America declare war?" 



BRITISH TO PERMIT NO LIMITATION ON NAVY. 



London, Dec. 4. — Winston Spencer Churchill, the min- 
ister of munitions, announced in a speech at Dundee to- 
night : 

"We enter the peace conference with the absolute deter- 
mination that no limitation shall be imposed on our right 
to maintain our naval defense. We do not intend, no mat- 
ter what arguments and appeals are addressed to us, to lend 
ourselves in any way to any fettering restrictions which will 
prevent the British navy maintaining its well tried and 
well deserved supremacy." 



•*WE ARE DONE FO'R; FATHER IS BROKEN MAN.' 



Crown Prince Thinks That Is Enough Punishment. 

London, Dec. 5. — (By A. P.) — "You English clamor to 
get father and me away from Holland. We are down and 
out, and my father is a broken man. Isn't that enough 
punishment?" the former crown prince of Germany said in 
an interview on the Island of Wieringen, where he is in- 
terned, with a correspondent of the Daily Mirror. 

Frederick William added that he always favored an agree- 
ment between Germany and Great Britain and wished them 
to work together. . A number of his best friends were in 
England and he only wished he could live there as a private 
citizen. 

*T quarreled with my father in regard to Great Britain," 

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he continued. "I told him the British would be against us. 
He never believed this and would not take into account that 
possibility." 



RETURNS ARMY OF GENTLEMEN. 



(New York World.) 

An army coming home victorious from war is not always 
counted on to exercise a high moral influence. Camps are 
not Sunday schools, and behind the plaudits for the return- 
ing troops there are sometimes mental reservations as to 
the effect on social conditions of a soldiery fresh from a suc- 
cessful campaign. Yet here is Secretary Baker asserting 
that the greatest inheritance the country will derive from 
the world-war will be the reflection upon its future govern- 
ment of the simple virtues the men of its armies have ab- 
sorbed in the training camps and at the front. 

That is a tribute probably never before paid to an army, 
and certainly never so well deserved as by the American 
army. Its soldiers, as the secretary says, have not only 
fought like heroes but lived like gentlemen. They have 
gone singing into action and helped the aged and infirm 
women of France ga,ther their crops and cheered up the sad 
little war orphans, and all the while their private life has 
been clean and honorable. . And with this is the testimony 
of Colonel Whittlesey, that "the enlisted man is a wonder." 

Obviously this development of moral character in mass 
by our 2,000,000 men overseas will be a potent social force 
at home. It has justified the temporary militarization of 
the nation in an unforeseen manner. An army drafted 
from American firesides was expected to be different, but 
the event has surpassed the highest hopes. What would 
an old-time army, what would Csesar's legions or Marl- 
borough's troopers, have thought of the suggestion that 
their return home would tend to improve moral ideals? 
Cromwell's veterans might have envied these citizen sol- 
diers of the American Republic. They have won a distinc- 
tion unique in the history of warfare. 



(From New Orleans States, Thursday, Dec. 5, 1918.) 
EXTRACT FROM LETTER OF J. W. M. 



Wilhelm worked to perfect his machine while Europe 
slept and dreamed of peace for many long years to come. 
England worked only to keep ahead in the naval race, but 
left her land forces to take care of themselves. And it has 
cost her dear to learn of her error in that respect. Now 
the Kaiser that was, endeavors to hoodwink all peoples by 
claiming that he was always in favor of peace. We will 
admit the plea ; to a certain extent, and to that extent only — 
until he was ready to strike. No doubt he was in favor of 
maintaining the peace a while longer, but the murder of 
the arch duke hurried matters, and found him not yet fully 
prepared. We can, however, judge by the events of the 
four years past how near to completion his preparations 
were. 

His endeavor to shift the blame for the war, first on one, 
and then on the other of the entente must fall flat, as have 
so many other German protestations of innocence in view of 
the mass of evidence accumulated and in the hands of the 
Allies. "Out of their own mouths" and by their own acts 
and writings his own people condemn him and declare him 
guilty. 



BY J. C. ABY. 



As things look now it will not be long before the former 
Kaiser realizes he is "in Dutch" with the Dutch. 



■ Germany brought on the great war, but the prospect of 
having to pay the cost until it hurts is not pleasing to the 
German people. 



"England has never had a deadlier enemy than the new 
Germany," says a Berlin newspaper. Which means, of 
course, that the new Germany is the same old Germany. 

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The Crown Prince says he will return to the German 
Empire. But by the time he returns there won't be any 
empire. 



In holding- them to the terms of the armistice the Huns 
have discovered that they can't fool with Ferdinand Foch. 



The German crown prince presents a sorry figure trying 
to explain his numerous defeats by passing the buck to 
Ludendorff and the general staff. 



The Prussian autocracy which a few months ago was ab- 
solute is now obsolete. Let us thank God it is so. 



Bill Hohenzollern is the greatest coward of history. When 
his autocracy collapsed he fled to Holland for his own safety 
and abandoned his wife and family to whatever fate might 
befall them. 



AUSTRIAN LEADERS TRY 

BOLSHEVISM IN ALSACE-LORRAINE. 



Paris, Dec. 5. — (Havas.) — A number of formerly prom- 
inent leaders in Austria-Hungary have arrived in Switzer- 
land with large sums of money to further a campaign of 
Bolshevism elsewhere than in Switzerland, the Zurich cor- 
respondent to the Journal says he learns from a reliable 
source. 

Among the men are the former grand admiral of the im- 
perial fleet, a former Austro-Hungarian foreign minister 
and a former member of the Hungarian cabinet. The cor- 
respondent adds that other men are to be sent to Alsace- 
Lorraine to spread Bolshevism. 

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STANDS BY HIS BROTHER. 



Prince Henry Will Do Everything to Preserve William From 

Harm. 

Amsterdam, Dec. 4. — Prince Henry, of Prussia, brother 
of the ex-Kaiser, has addressed an announcement to all the 
members of the Prussian royal house, according to the 
Kreuz Zeitung, of Berlin, in which he says : 

"I am forced to recognize the king's abdication and will 
assist in the policy for order and the constitutional govern- 
ment. But on the other hand, I consider myself personally 
attached to my king to the end of my life, and shall do 
everything to preserve him from harm and shall recognize 
him absolutely as the sole family head." 



Vienna, Nov. 3. — (By The Associated Press.) — Dr. Franz 
Kleine, former minister of justice, who will represent Aus- 
tria at the peace conference, said to the correspondent to- 
day: 

"If we are permitted to attend the conference I presume 
it will be merely to receive its mandates, though we trust 
we will be heard. However, so far we have no information 
as to when we shall attend or the conditions attached to our 
attendance." 



(From the Washington Post.) 

Christo Vasilakaki, member of the Greek Parliament, who 
has been on a special mission in the United States, at Wash- 
ington, says: 

"We shall have to watch with closest scrutiny the political 
autocracy of the world. The program of the dominant -na- 
tions cannot be carried out easily. I do not believe, in fact, 
that the world will ever have a lasting peace for ever and 
ever; but if we shall try to improve conditions, notwith- 
standing we may be sure we cannot succeed in establishing 
the millenium, we shall do much for the world." 

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TOO SHORT. 



At a time when it was thought Germany wanted to get a 
foothold in Holland, Bismarck and the Dutch Ambassador 
stood watching a review of the German army. As a well- 
set-up body of men marched past, the Ambassador said: 
*Tine soldiers, but too short." Then came the Grenadiers, 
between six and seven feet tall; nevertheless, the Ambas- 
sador's comment was the same as before: "Fine soldiers, 
but too short." 

"What does Your Excellency mean?" asked Bismarck. 

"I mean that we can flood Holland eight feet deep," replied 
the Ambassador. — Boston Transcript. 



(From the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Sunday, 
Dec. 15, 1918.) 

AT THE PEACE TABLE. 



BY EDGAR A. GUEST. 

Who shall sit at the table, when the teiTns of peace are 

made — 
The wisest men of the troubled lands in their silver and gold 

brocade ? 
Yes, they shall gather in solemn state to speak for each 

living race. 
But who shall speak for the unseen dead that shall come to 

the council place? 
Though you see them not, and you hear them not, they shall 

sit at the table, too ; 
They shall throng the room where the peace is made and 

know what it is you do ; 
The innocent dead from the sea shall rise to stand at the 

wise man's side, 
And over his shoulder a boy shall look— a boy they crucified. 

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You may guard the doors of that council hall with barriers 

strong" and stout, 
But the dead unbidden shall enter there, and never you'll 

shut them out. 
And the man that died in the open boat, and the babes that 

suffered worse, 
Shall sit at the table when peace is made by the side of a 

martyred nurse. 

You may see them not, but they'll all be there; when they 

speak you may fail to hear; 
You may think that you're making your pacts alone, but 

their spirits will hover near. 
And whatever the terms of peace you make with the tyrant 

whose hands are red, 
You must please not only the living there, but must satisfy 

the dead. . 



PLEDGE OF THE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER 
CLUB OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



As a member of the Unconditional Surrender Club, believ- 
ing that Universal Safety can be brought about only through 
adequate punishment of the nation responsible for the World 
War, 

I pledge myself to have no dealings, socially, commercially, 
or otherwise, with Germany or Germans, or to use in any 
manner anything that issues from Germany or Germans, 
until the members of this organization, collectively, deter- 
mine that the Germans responsible for the war, and the 
Germans who carried on the atrocious warfare, have paid 
the penalties as far as possible commensurate with their 
crimes against humanity. 

In signing this pledge, I define a German as any person, 
no matter where bom, who has absorbed Prussian kultur to 
the point where he can reconcile Germany's policy in the 
war. 



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From tlie Xew Orleans Times-Picayuue, Thursday, December 19th, 1918. 
Eeproduced from the ^e\v Yorlc' Herald. 



OUTWEIGHED. 




IN FLANDERS FIELDS. -_ 



(From the Southern Yacht Club of New Orleans, "Barome- 
ter," December, 1918.) 



In Flanders fields the poppies grow 
Between the crosses, row on row, 

That mark our place; and in the sky 
The larks, still bravely singing, fly, 
Scarce heard amid the guns below. 

We are the dead. Short days ago 
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, 
Loved and were loved; and now we lie 
In Flanders fields. 

Take up your quarrel with the foe ! 
To you, from ^failing hands, we throw 
The torch. Be yours to hold it high ! 
If ye break faith with us who die 
We shall not sleep, though poppies blow 
In Flanders fields. 

—JOHN McCRAE, Lieut. Col., 
Canadian Expeditionary Force in France. 



HOW CAN THE ALLIES AND THE HUNS GET TO- 
GETHER WHEN THE SAME WORD, JUSTICE, 
MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS? 



BY REV. NEWELL D. HILLIS. 



(From the New Orleans States, Tuesday, Dec. 18th, 1913.) 
Commerce between two nations begins with a common 
medium of exchange through money. Trade between Anier- 
icans and Mexicans is diff"icult, because a dollar means cne 
hundred cents worth of gold to the American and a dollar 
means fifty cents worth of silver to the Mexican, and end- 

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less disputes, and raids result. Illustrations of this kind 
make clear the difficulties of admitting the Huns into the 
League of Nations, or finding a common ground upon which 
a permanent peace can be established. How can you trade 
with the German if the Allies have a dollar of one hundred 
cents, and the German uses a pewter counterfeit coin? It 
is perfectly evident that the word justice means one thing 
to the American and another to the German. 

The recent armistice does not mean to Berlin what it 
means to Washington. To Washington and Paris and Lon- 
don the armistice meant not only the surrender of the Ger- 
man ships and submarines, the withdrawal from France and 
Belgium and Alsace and Lorraine — it means a defeat, crush- 
ing and overwhelming. 

To Germany that armistice means the very opposite of 
defeat. Witness these words in the Vorwaerts — "The valo- 
rous army of the Fatherland remains undefeated. Not one 
foot of Germany's sacred soil has been polluted by an Allied 
soldier." 

The armistice does not mean to German ambassadors in 
foreign countries what it means to the Allied ambassadors 
in those lands. Von Eckhardt, ambassador to Mexico, has 
just put out the following statement, for the people of 
Mexico: *T wish that you would make it known that the 
German colony have decorated their buildings with German 
flags to show their satisfaction that their country has given 
peace to the world." 

Already the Huns are claiming that their native generosity 
led them to withdraw their troops from France and Belgium, 
not because they were defeated, but because they were un- 
willing to kill any more French, Belgians and Americans ! 

More and more it becomes evident that this armistice may 
have been a mistake. We now know that every other Ger- 
man shell that was fired during the first week of November 
failed to explode. One more week would have seen the Ger- 
man army without munitions. Another week would have 
seen them fleeing across the Rhine. A third week would 

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have seen our troops well on their way to Berlin. It is 
doubtful whether the Hun was ever more cynic.-il, cunning- cr 
hypocritical than at the present moment. During the mili- 
tary phase of this war, the Alhes did not deal with men — 
they dealt with denatured beings, mere military machines, 
human bodies, pursuing ends of lust, pleasure, power and 
conquest, but without souls. Take the intellect out of a man, 
and you have a gibbering idiot. Take conscience and hu- 
manity out of the German and you have a Hun. Civilization 
does not mean to the Hun what the word means to the Allies. 
When the treaty is signed, it will mean a scrap of paper to 
the Hun, but it will mean a solemn obligation to cur repre- 
sentatives. 

Money is a mechanism of exchange between an Allied 
merchant and a German manufacturer. Words are the in- 
tellectual mediums of treaty exchange. But how are we 
going to make a treaty with the Huns when the Allies use 
a gold dollar and the Huns a pewter and a counterfeit coin? 
Let us be firm at the peace table ! We may lose at this con- 
ference what we won on the battlefield. 



WAR AP^D PEACE. 



(From the New Orleans States, Sunday, Dec. 15, 1918.) 

December 10, 1918. 
Editor of New Orleans States. 

Dear Sir : It is rather surprising that so eminent a lawyer 
as Mr. Charles E. Hughes should use an expression in the 
President's address of November 11th, as an argument that 
the Great World War was at an end. 

And here is what the President said : 

"The war thus came to an end, for having accepted these 
terms of Armistice, it will be impossible for the German 
commands to renew it." 

This may be all very well, but wars do not end in the man- 
ner stated by the President. 

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Under the Constitution of the United States the pov;er 
to declare war rests with Congress, but the power to nego- 
tiate Peace is in the hands of the President provided any 
treaty receives the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the 
Senate ; the negotiation and the signing of a treaty of peace 
by Commissioners appointed by the President of the United 
States is no treaty until ratified by the necessary vote of 
the Senate. 

The President very appropriately called the other nations 
at war with the Central Powers the Associates of the United 
States at war and not its Allies, as an alliance presupposes 
a treaty and there was no treaty of any kind with any other 
Nation regarding the war. 

Therefore notwithstanding the signing of the Armistice, 
a state of war still exists between the United States and 
Germany, just as it did from the time the war was declared 
in April 1917. 

This matter has, moreover, been placed beyond the pale 
of discussion or doubt by an Act of Congress approved Sep- 
tember 24, 1917, Chapter 56, Section 13, reading in part 
as follows: 

"The date of terminating the war between the United 
States and the Imperial German Government shall be fixed 
by proclamation of the President of the United States." 
Therefore the war does not end until a Treaty has been 
negotiated, approved by the President and ratified by two- 
thirds of the Senate and then a proclamation accordingly 
issued by the President. 

It is generally said that the war of 1812, ended December 
24, 1814, because on that day there was signed in the City of 
Ghent, Belgium, a treaty of Peace between the Commission- 
ers appointed by the United States and by England ; but this 
is incorrect ; it is true that such a Treaty was signed and 
was subsequently approved by the President but was not 
ratified by the Senate of the United States until February 
18, 1815, and only on that date did the war end; therefore 
the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815, was not fought 

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as some historians say after Peace had been declared but 
while a state of war still existed ; and we all know that if the 
English had been successful in that battle the war would 
have started all over again. 

Very truly yours, 

W. 0. HART. 



There is no "Hymn of Hate" for Germany, or ite people, 
in ihe hearts of the American people, but there is a deter- 
mmation that they shall suffer to the extent necessary to 
make reparation for the wrongs they committed during the 
terrible World War brought on by them. 



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This is my Father's World 

let me ne'er forget 

That tho' the wrong- seems oft so strong, 

God is the ruler yet. 

This is my Father's World 
The Battle is not done. 
Jesus who died shall be satisfied, 
And earth and heaven be one. 

This is my Father's World, 

Should my heart be ever sad ? 

The Lord is King-let the heavens ring, 

God reigns — let the earth be glad. 

—REV. M. D. BABCOCK. 



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